[easymodex]

In my opinion USA is the one that needs to be kept in check, being the self proclaimed world police has left only destruction in it's wake. Covert operations, intelligence gathering is totally fine, but having several military bases in every country with an oil resource and forcing your will on innocent people thousands of miles away from your country is not. You are the aggressor and don't delude yourself otherwise.

[saiya-jin]

Although what you say is true, don't expect any change of mindset from US citizens. There is just too much glorification of the evils of the past and present, be it hollywood, most news or basically any mainstream source of information. For every piece of information telling about horrors of war, PTSD, seeing kids/women blown to pieces / doing it yourself, there is 10 pieces talking about proud veterans, patriots, camaraderie etc.

I think this behavior is common among us all, us vs the rest. Its jsut that this is so much more obvious if you see it from outside of the bubble. Look at former colonial powers, many citizens of western europe still consider enslaving and raping whole nations for hundreds of years an enlightened period ("but... we build them rails!" or similar is a phrase I heard more than once on this topic).

But since we don't have time machine, its hard to say whether US was/is overall the force of good vs evil. Somebody would have to fill up power vacuum otherwise, and trust me, you wouldn't want the communist USSR earlier chinese to run the whole show.