Reply #34: Power corrupts...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

“Americans deserve a principled diplomacy...backed by undoubted military might...based on enlightened self-interest, not the zero-sum logic of power politics...a diplomacy that commits America to lead the world toward liberty and prosperity."

Pax Americana, anyone? After all, we know what's best for the world.

Look at all of our accomplishments:

Highest murder rate in the industrialized world.

Highest level of teen pregnancy in the industrialized world.

No universal health care for citizens.

Been involved in more wars than any other country in the 20th century.

Uses more of the world's resources than any other country.

Has the world's largest stockpile of WMD and has used them to kill hundreds of thousands of people.

Is the world's greatest polluter.

And, the list goes sadly on.

Our government, whether Democratic or Republican, treats foreign policy as if it were a football game with the goal being that we should be Number One.

We should replace the Eagle as the symbol of our country with the hyena. We prey on the weak of the world and then tell them that they should love us because someday they too can have a Walmart in their village. We tell our own citizens that we are spreading "democracy" when we are really spreading predatory capitalism.

Why do they hate us?