[Dedicated Mind]

DB, I agree we are not a savage nation like Nazi Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union, but to think that America won all these wars without serving the national interest is naive and delusional. We rebuilt Europe and contained communism while looking out for the interests of capitalism and multinational corporations. If we are so superior, why did we wipe out native American indians? Manifest destiny. Why did we enslave africans? Economic and racist interests. Why did we bomb vietnam to smithereens. Military industrial complex. We did not fight all these wars because we wanted the freedom of the people, we are looking out for our own national and economic interests. How else do you explain the support of military dictatorships in Greece, Argentina, Cuba...etc. America has a mixed history, it rises and renews itself every four years there is the hope for renewal and restoration. I agree that it is the greatest nation in the history of the world, but to think that it doesn't serve its own interests is delusional. We still haven't seen the end of the iraq war, but it wasn't to free the iraqi people. Why don't we free Saudi Arabia or Egypt? We went to Iraq for regime change and to place an ally in an oil rich nation instead of a dictator in alliance with Russia. It was because of oil and strategic alliances, not for the people as Bush claims.