[kcorbitt]

Historically speaking, it's hard to find a nation that with broad power outside its own borders that has not used that power to bully others.

[rainsford]

And also historically speaking, nations with the kind of relative power that the United States has have behaved far, far worse towards other countries. There are things the US could improve upon, but the bar has been set impressively low by those who have held power before (including the United States of years past).