> The prevailing foreign policy view is that the US is good and a benign hegemony and a civilizing and democratizing force. No, that's just how it's sold to th

> The prevailing foreign policy view is that the US is good and a benign hegemony and a civilizing and democratizing force. No, that's just how it's sold to the public. E.g. I guarantee nobody had civilizing and democratizing in mind when the US occupying force in Iraq issued order 81: the people in Iraq are now prohibited from saving newly designed seeds (not the traditional ones) and may only plant seeds for their food from licensed, authorized U.S. distributors. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Orders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Orders