Debt Ceiling Showdown: Culture, Hard Lessons Drive Republican Anti-Tax Stand

You forget about central and south america, which for its commercial interests America turned much of into a murderous hellhole and in which we cemented an ongoing culture of violence and despotism. And there are other places like the Philippine­s. 

America's reach is long.
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I won't quibble with that at all.  What I was referring to specifical­ly was the quality of poor and middle class Americans' lives post WWII.  Most Americans, if not just about all, had no idea what our government was up to in other nations around the world until fairly recently in modern history.
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