[mbroncano]

No, it obviously doesn't, unless of course you think the US manages to lead the world by acting against its own interests.

In addition, and as far as agitprop goes, this particular argument begs the question: if this is the case, why are we doing it in the first place?

This kind of juvenile ideology, claiming some pretended affront to some national interest to justify some weakly supported exceptionalism and eventually supremacism, is old as the world. As I don't want to invoke Godwin so early in the afternoon, I'll just mention this is also quite a popular theme amongst wife beaters.

A significant segment of the US population is following a well known path for all of those acquantied with early 20th century European history. It's only that the US is still catching up with all that, being such a young nation, and not having been vaccinated against fascism like pretty much most of the old world. It's gonna get rough I'm afraid.