But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.
I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.
We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.
I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.
We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.