I think there is a few things you don't underdetand about the European region in your willingness to spread the guilt and depravity. America is guilty for what America has done since WW II (the Cold War era) - nothing more. The world was on a natural path until European colonialism. The creation of unnatural borders made this world wrong. In a sudden rush for economic and empire expansion, tribes who had fought against each other for centuries were forced together behind European made borders. Likewise, tribes that had gotten along with each other for centuries were forced apart. There is virtually no location from Africa through the Middle East and onto South Asia that Europeans didn't screw up. Rwanda, Sudan, "Yugoslavia," Iraq, Israel/Palestine, and anywhere else you find slaughter, mayhem, or genocide is a European legacy. One that most of you have washed your hands of even as America becomes the focus of fault.
Americans don't believe that all our problems are because of Europe. Any problems that we have created for ourselves began with the start of the Cold War, which isn't much despite European exaggerations. However, there is no denying that every single location an American boot has been since the end of the Cold War that it has been a legacy of European colonialism. Even Iraq is a Frankenstein's Monster of a nation built unnaturally by Europeans. We can't even rid ourselves of one of "our" Cold War dictators without watching the poplulation slaughter each other. Yugolsavia was the only nation in Europe that didn't have it's borders re-drawn, which facilitated Bosnia and Kosovo. Somalia was just yet another African nation victim to yesteryears European greed.
Given the end of the World War and the almost complete withdrawal of Europeans from their colonies, America didn't have much of a choice. By the time America got involved with the Cold War, the Soviet Union's influence had spanned Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. In order to maintain a sense of "stability" dictators were employed by Soviets and Americans so we can even state that Russians even inherited your messes. It wasn't until the end of the Cold War that the genocide became a featured event in Africa and Europe (again). The tribes, suddenly freed from superpower maintainers, explored their freedom and sought to make right what Europeans made wrong.
As far as anti-Americanism, I provided links to studies that were even conducted by Europeans (I'm sure you ignored them). Perhaps they are merely making bizarre claims too, but I think not. Anti-Americanism is largely exaggerated in the world by Europeans, but it's only in Europe that you will find institutional and policy foundation to undermine American foreign policies. The French have held a grudge ever since we didn't back their greedy play for the Suez. The Germans aren't what they should have been thanks to us. Russia is a backwater country pretending back to power thanks to us. Spain lost its collonies to us. And two European made World Wars needed American participation to settle them. Most of the anti-Americanism that exists around the world has been facilitated by European rumors or by former enemies. Some of it is merely dissapointment because too much was expected ofuspost WWII. We are criticized for imperfections as if we owe perfection to the world. But we haven't started world wars have we? We have never been the cause of mass genocides and hundreds of millions of corpses, have we? 40 years of Cold War saw the Soviet anti-American propoganda machine cover half the world until they were slowly eaten away by truth. In the mean time, it was Western Europeans that increasingly saw every American success as another disgrace for them. Today, many Europeans pretend that American culture was forced upon them as if they weren't begging for it decades ago. A re-capturing of pride is at the root of European anti-Americnism. You would be hard pressed to lay out our sins in this world and try to equate them to what Europe has done. Yet, we have become the face of what to hate in the West for some.
And it's not Americans that are obsessed with Europeans. It's Europeans that have loud and obnoxious opinions on America from decade to decade or event to event. The vast majority of all Americans don't even know who your presidents/chancellors are or who is running the EU. The vast majority have no clue as to your laws or bad behaviors. We don't conduct a never ending series of polls on how Americans feel about Europeans. We simply don't care about you until we have to send Americans across the ocean to kill or bleed for you (and Bosnia wasn't long ago) just to protect our interests. But you will find quite the opposite in Europe. Constant polls on America, constant criticism to our internal business and foreign policies, and constant obsessions with comparing European historical depravities to American fumblings. I mean, where would Europe be today if it couldn't compare Germany's holocaust on Jews to GITMO? We receive not nearly the amount of criticism from Asia or Africa that we receive from Europe. And criticism from the Middle East are largely unfounded and shaped. We've done nothing to them as compared to the Soviets and Europeans, but who is left holding the bag for the lot of you?
But you are in Ireland so what do you know about it? Your concern over the decades has been the British. But Ireland and Britian share something in common. They are both saved from core European depravities thanks to the Channel. De Gaulle disrepected Britain too, you know. Pretty much every outsider that had anything to do with restoring France was looked down upon. This is why he had an axe to grind againsgt English speaking nations. I don't really include the U.K. and Ireland with continental Europe. And they only use Britian when they need a European nation to represent a positive angle for Europe. Otherwise, you're outcasts.