This whole issue of the ugly american cracks me up

Excuse me if the next few statments sound a little overly nationlistic or over the top:

We as the wolds most powerful nation have behaved far more civily than any superpower in the history of man.

The Greeks tried to take over the known world. The Romans tried to take over the world. The Catholic church took over all of Europe and tried to spread further only to be stopped by the Arabs. The French also conqured till they were stopped and the English when it was there turn oppressed native peoples the world over untill their empire fell. Now its our turn.

We could have kept and ruled half of Europe as the Russians did as well as kept part of Asia after WWII yet we passed. We could be ruling Afganistan right now, we could be lording it over Iraq ruling with an oppressive fist yet we keep trying to build up their govt and come home without leaving too big a mess. Sill as you say we are hated the world over for our arrogance.

We might as well just go out and have a nice little conquering spree the world couldn't hate us any more.

"what are we going to do tonite Brain"
"the same thing we do every night Pinky, Try to take over the world"