Diuretic, personally as the single most dominant power on the planet, i believe we are meant to be hated. while a new president may help change attitudes a bit, it will only be temporary. because.. we are an empire. and we exert our infuence on the planet, for better AND worse. mostly better tho, sorry its the truth. way better for the west. see with the soviet union out of the way, and no big power for everyone to hate more then the united states, all you have is us to hate.

personally i dont view this as an exclusively american empire, its also like the radio man said today and i happen to agree, its a combined empire of canada usa australia and england. it is a continuation of what has been for long time. an english speaking empire. almost every action all four countries has been supported by the others, we are there for mutual self defense and support.

But what my reason for saying those things is because they have a point. Our belief that we are a good people, a good country drives us to do good. It is why we give aid around the world, why we hand out toys to children and build schools in afgansitan and iraq.. it is why we are not rounding up people and executing them. because we very well could and subdue the country. we dont do these things because we hold our principles very high.. trying to convince us that we have no principles has no purpose. yes we have alot of cia make dirty deals, plenty of corruption, but the over all point is that collectively as a nation we believe in a certain ideal and attempt to hold our leaders to it. otherwise there would be no trial for abu graib, or anything else. the british empire was hated, and they didn care, nor did they make any attempt for anyone to like them. we are hated, we do care, and we do make an attempt to make people like us, and be free.
but there is also the empire, for our defense and benifit, for our high standard of living and prevention of cataclsymic world wars, the cia uses people against other people for our own benifit regardless of the iffy connections. self defense national security and intelligence requires that we make dirty deals with dirty people. the intelligence agencies of all nations opperate in a region bordering morality and descency, but for the intended good for the nations that they work for.

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