> How can one maintain that their country is the greatest with such dubious ethics? Compared to who? > I mean specifically using the argument 'doing objection

> How can one maintain that their country is the greatest with such dubious ethics? Compared to who? > I mean specifically using the argument 'doing objectionable things only to non US citizens' as part of the case for America's greatness seems...odd at best. That is a rule of law (for their citizens) better than much of the world.