One of the flaws of the Bush administration's foreign policy is the belief that we are the world's last remaining superpower, and therefore, might making right, we can shape the entire world to our liking.
That is flawed for several reasons. One is that whether we are the sole superpower depends entirely on one's definition of "superpower." Russia has the nuclear capability of wiping us off the face of the Earth. The Russians could do that in about 30 minutes. True, we could wipe them off the face of the Earth in retaliation, but that would be of little comfort to the survivors in either country.
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A second flaw in American imperialistic foreign policy is that we are, frankly, incompetent. Our government has designated as "pro-Western" some of the worst human beings ever to walk on this Earth. We have installed far more dictators than we have democrats, and every time the blowback has cost us. The Iranians don't like us because we deposed their democratically chosen leader and imposed on them the dictatorship of the Shah of Iran.
Surely most Americans realize that the unusual amount of hostility toward us is not because the rest of the world consists of New England liberals. Even the Pentagon has finally come up with a study that says exactly what I, the rest of the world, and even al-Qaeda have been saying: The world hates our foreign policy, not us, and not because we are free or rich but because we are arrogantly attempting to dominate the world.
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