The simple answer to all of this goes much deeper than Bush. As the largest free state in the world, the US has taken on the role of "defender of freedom" whether the rest of us like it or not. Most of us thought that after Vietnam that the US should know better, but it still hasn't figured it out. This attitude has created a lot of animosity, which finally reached fever pitch with 9/11. Instead of realising that backing down and admitting that it can't solve all the world's probelms by itself, the Bush administration, in the name of the US, has instituted a holy war on terrorism and enlisted as many other countries as are willing to believe that this is a good cause, when the best answer is really to allow a Darwinian system of natural selection to sort things out. By the way, that last comment was satirical; I don't know what the best solution is to the problems of bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, but it sure as hell isn't the current course.