> There's certainly a case to be made that a strong US military is in the world's best interest. In fact, I would wager that a majority of Americans (and a majo

> There's certainly a case to be made that a strong US military is in the world's best interest. In fact, I would wager that a majority of Americans (and a majority of citizens of democratic countries across the world) hold the belief expressed in the previous statement. Given that the U.S. is being consistently voted as being the biggest threat to world peace, I'd vaguer not. That does not mean we want Russia or China to dominate us instead, it just means the world doesn't want to be bullied by the U.S. either. You do realize that every single empire in history assumed it has a more moral position to bully others that those that came before it, don't you? I don't know how it reflects in American society, but in the rest of the world the fact that the U.S. killed a million Iraqis here, a few hundred thousand Afghanis elsewhere, enabled the slave-markets of Libya, funded terrorists in Syria and is currently helping to commit genocide in Yemen does not reflect anywhere near great on the U.S. Some of us actually think that the people from these places are also valid, genuine human beings who deserve to live, so no, many people do not think the U.S. has any moral high ground here. It may be hard to swallow for some U.S. patriots, but I'd say you should be proud of the country and what it is supposed to stand for, rather than being proud of the government, (government != country), and what it is doing in many places. Despite what many Americans seem to think, you do not have the best healthcare in the world, nor the best education system, nor the best infrastructure and I could go on and on - please focus on that instead of empire building.