>I agree. I'm 100% for pulling American political influence, economic influence, American troops (of all types) and American dollars out of every single country in the world RIGHT NOW (there is that pesky clean up our mess issue in Iraq though)
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>Then the only ones left to hate us would be the ones with the view of 'those greedy americans have it all and won't share when they know they have a responsibility to the poorer nations of the world.' I couldn't count the number of times I have heard that spoken by visitors to this country now let alone in the media.

Some reparation would be in order, but the actual effects would be impossible to calculate. Someone making a fortune in XVII or XVIII century, then waging an army with it and maybe removing a whole nation somewhere in the Southern hemisphere may still have offspring today who are still wealthy. But trying to right that wrong would assume to calculate the lost income for... whom, the offspring of a slaughtered or enslaved nation, or for any survivors there (who may have done equally much or more wrong to their neighbors)... etc etc. It would unravel indefinitely.

I'd propose just undoing the currently active unfair contracts, loans, laws adopted under foreign pressure (like the medication or genetic copyright), and again, the whole WTO/WB/IMF dictate, and undoing the damage done by them.

Beyond that, any nation which still suffers can only blame itself.