>>When was it democracy that was the cause? For Brits it was just empire building and, well, the spice must flow. For Soviets, it was their fear that they'd get surrounded again like in 1919 so they always sought to cordon themselves off with a buffer zone of at least friendly countries. With the US, it's Brzezinsky who invented the taliban to spite the Soviets, IOW "we'll pact with any devil, if only it's sufficiently anticommunist". As usual, it bit back.
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>I agree. But when I criticize the US policy, I want this country to be better. This is my country.
>This is where we differ.

For me, I'd wholeheartedly like it to be better. To behave like a country in a first place. A regular country, I mean. Something that would behave by the golden rule, for starters.