fingolfin361
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WarMachine said:Despite some views as America being "world police", i think that's just exaggeration. We might have the largest global military presence, but we don't penalize many countries for doing things we don't like, i.e. North Korea which we never do anything meaningful about. We shouldn't be viewed as an authority since that would breed contempt from less powerful nations and emerging powers, we ought to be cooperating and being more diplomatic.
Interesting that you should mention N Korea, the last i read about that issue (and it WAS sometime ago), it was something to the tune of, why the US wont do anything major, because of China. All said and done China is no push over and is economically important to the US.
No offense to you WARMachine, but personally i feel the sentence like "we dont penalise many countries for doing things we dont like..." sums up the arrogant high handedness of US foreign policy that many outside don't appreciate.
That said, you've made valid points.
Also intersting that ASTRAL used 'world police' as i have only heard it being used contemptously!