American power has been used for bad ends at times (the Mexican War was unadulterated aggression), but it’s hard to think of a country that has more often extended itself for good purposes around the globe.
Damn right we were the good guys!
As Colin Powell put it in 2003: “We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years .
Asked later whether the United States would encourage elections, Trump dismissed the idea: “We have to fix the country first.
The country’s oil, Trump announced, would be pumped by American oil companies for American oil companies—not even for American taxpayers.
Marco Rubio warned other leaders not to “F around” lest they find out what a bad hombre the president is.
Back in 1980, when Trump was just a novice charlatan, Fidel Castro did something like that during the Mariel Boatlift. »