Some Americans have taken refuge in the obvious answer: they envy our wealth and resent our

power. There is truth in this but it barely scratches the surface. The reason many foreigners dont share americans high opinion of themselves is simple: they dislike both how America behaves overseas and its attitude about that behavior (732)

It often pushes other countries around, forcing on them policies and sometimes tyrannical leaders that serve only American interests, and then, if they resist too much, it may bomb obedience into them with cruise missiles (732)

Double standars have a long bipartisan pedigree in American foreing policy. (732)

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation (734)

The rule of liberty that all just government derives its authority from the consent of the governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government Would not they prefer the just, humane, civilizing government of this Republic to the savage, bloody rule of pillage and extortion from which we have rescued them? Shall we return these peoples back to the reeking hands from which we have taken them (711)

this nation is to be the sovereign factor in the peace on the world. For the conflicts of the future are to be conflicts of trade (714)