Souseiseki wrote:Yumyumsuppertime wrote:
I do wish that you wouldn't add significant amounts of information in your edits, since it makes it difficult to adequately respond.
That's all part of it, but none of it is sufficient on its own, as you could probably tell from the part of my post that you cut out in order to make your observation without having to address other points.
i was hoping it'd get done before you saw the post actually.
i'm not sure what other points there are to address. you already covered where the resentment comes from and how most if not all of the good that america has done is just self-interest under the radiant scion of IR realism. and we just covered the massive luck factor.
Sorry, I was unnecessarily snide regarding the edit. Hypocritical of me, since I've run into the same issue before now.
Anyway, I don't necessarily think that the United States is necessarily any different from any world power in how we've gone about things. We've simply been more successful at it. Also, to be fair, while we've propped up some nasty people, we've also managed to help keep even worse ideologies from gaining more of a foothold. As Winston Churchill once said, "You can always trust America to do the right thing...after they've tried everything else."
