why american facing problems .....

I respectfully disagree. I do not think that Bush weakened American's status. Bush did a much better job of protecting our reputation as a strong country that could not be pushed around. I did not agree with a lot of Bush's policies but he didn't make us weak and he stood firm on his policies. He also had strong people with solid experience supporting and advising him. Obama is constantly going around apologizing. Apologizing for what? Our reputation as a world power was intact until Obama took office. He is weak, indecisive and hasn't the understanding to pull the country out of this economic decline. Anyone who has a checkbook knows you can't spend your way out of debt. He is on a mission to destroy the country and then build it back into a Socialist nation. I think we are much weaker now and I think other countries just sit back and laugh at us for electing him President. Those same countries we have been annoying sure were glad to hold out their hands and take our money.

I agree with some of what you say. Bush and Obama are not good Presidents... or could've done better. Although Bush did ruin the US's reputation by declaring on a country that didn't have WMD's, without virtually any proof. Nor did he war terrorists directly, rather found himself warring average non terrorists who later became, or rather were forced to become terrorists as a result of the invasion further fueling hatred and thereby providing the terrorists easier recruits which can only be BAD. Strategically Bush failed, as the terrorists found themselves in better moral ground than they should have amongst Afghans and Iraqi's because Bush' wordings of the war early on ("Crusade" for instance) helped the TERRORISTS gain support as freedom fighters protecting against an invading foreign force. Hardly the sort of impression you'd want the President of the US to have amongst the Middle East, since opinions matter more in the Middle East if the US wants to succeed in ensuring there's no more terrorists... unless of course this is a genocide, in which case it doesn't matter what kind of langauge the President uses. The US is wasting billions fighting those that should have been avoided if the planning was done properly, not to mention the war might have been more legitimate had the UN sanctioned the war, which might have also provided Bush more troops and acceptance amongst the Muslims. Obama cannot harm the reputation of the US by apologizing if it will slow the recruitment of terrorists - there's no shame in being polite, humble and truthful of the past 8 years of innocent men, women and children dying for Bush's arrogance and incompetence as Commander in Chief, nor the unnecessary torture of victims who by law (the courts NOT deluded Bush officials) weren't terrorists (some at least) but people caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Those that were terrorists should've been killed and buried secretly avoiding the whole martyrdom stuff, not kept in prison and humiliated/tortured like animals then executed like Saddam. Which can only inflame the Middle East. Total opposite of US policy, right? Or am I wrong? All that costs billions of US tax payers money, apologizing cost nothing. However, Obama hasn't done enough to capture the leaders of Al Qaeda, and has as you've rightly said spent too much energy on apologizing rather than dealing with the problem. The wars are taking too long, either send in a much larger force that can actually defend itself or leave. It's surely better than being sitting duck to rocket propelled grenades and road side bombs.

The U.S. is in decline because [1] we are kicking out God, [2] therefore traditional values and family is spiraling downward [3] and so there are lots of unplanned babes we are terminating which the Old Testament says was a last straw w/ God [4] our once small, limited in power government is morphing into huGe government which wants to run all things (have control over so much of life and resources) and [5] we are hesitant to fight against threatening forces in the world yet western modern weaponry is more and more in the hands of those threatening forces which have no hesitancy in waging war or dying for their great cause and also in their hands is direct access to wide news outlets which shape how the u.s. and Israel are seen, as evidenced by the doctored photos sent to the A.P. and others from Hezbollah.. - The U.S. prospered because of the Magna Carta, the Constitution which brought freedom and free enterprise, and the checks and balances upon power they produced, but now we are being convinced that if we prospered surely it was because we are evil and we now deserve to decline even be punished.. This is the western liberal way of thinking and the western liberal propaganda being spread throughout the world. When there is no more superpower blocking world domination, it will be interesting in history to see what happens next.