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> 4. America despite its many faults has been an overwhelming force for freedom and wealth throughout the world.

America has been an overwhelming force for its own self interests. These are the kinds of statements that show why so many people in the rest of the world are mad about US foreign policy.

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Our own self-interests have pushed the state of science and technology forward quite a bit in the world, I say to you over the internet. He said nothing about motivations, only end result.

The self-interests of the Soviet Union also pushed the state of science and technology forward a huge amount, probably more than any other country except the USA itself.

Self-interests are what drives all foreign policies, regardless of country.

It's a competition/race, and America has been winning at it for the last century.

The others' moral opposition and distaste with the USA is a product of them not finishing first in this race.

Abstractly, perhaps, but I think we can say that there are more concrete reasons why a nation may dislike the USA. I'm not arguing for or against the USA as a power here, just that this just seems too much of an oversimplification of the issue. This isn't a board game with scores and tokens. Mapping the complexities of nations over a 100 years into such an analogy just doesn't fit right in my head.

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