Its a 4 letter word. ENVY.
Jean-Francois Revel, a curmudgeonly titan of French political thinkers, published a book last year titled "The Anti-American Obsession." His thesis: Anti-Americanism today expresses the revenge of a defeated, but still pervasive,....left that never forgave the United States for winning the Cold War and exposing what he calls its bankrupt ideology. It's not just envy, these people have suffered a terrible loss -- seeing their life-long socialist 'faith' shown to be a fraud and failure, thanks to US conservatives.
First Denial, then Anger...