You must have missed the first half of this statement: >This is not to say those values are wrong - I think, by and large, they are indeed good, but the arroga

You must have missed the first half of this statement: >This is not to say those values are wrong - I think, by and large, they are indeed good, but the arrogance with which they are expressed by the US often just doesn't help. Just because something is a "geopolitical reality" doesn't mean it isn't cultural