Does U.S. foreign policy resemble an authoritarian dictator?

["michael parrott" <michaelparrott@hotmail.com>]

Saddam Hussein is a horrible authoritarian dictator who uses a 
military/police evil justice to keep control over his people.  In other 
words he will hit his public over the head with a big stick if they don't do 
what is in his interests.  It can safely be said that these methods of using 
a militaristic police to oppress people and manipulate them forcibly into 
maintaining his own interests go against the ideals that the U.S. was built 
on.
U.S. methods, of spreading a military police throughout the world and using 
that police as a big stick to hit over countries heads who go against that 
interest, seem to make the U.S. appear to be an authoritarian dictator when 
they are considered in world politics.
Does staying true to U.S. ideals mean that the U.S. should never be involved 
in war with other nations?  No, WW2 was a war that was fought that can be 
justified by U.S. ideals.  Hitler was evil and he wanted to take over the 
world, he was killing millions of jews, his ideas were against liberty, 
freedom,and justice- so war was justified.
The question remains, do the American people really believe in killing 
people to secure economic interests?
Maybe the true conflict is not between the ideals of the U.S. public and the 
actions of U.S. foreign policy.  Maybe the real conflict is going on inside 
the average american.  They have to either give up some economic comfort on 
the one hand (don't drive an s.u.v.) and be in agreeance with their ideals 
(not invading other countries for economic interests) or they can enjoy 
their gargantuan suburbans with an inkling of guilt on their shoulders in 
knowing that the U.S. may have had to kill some people for it.

-these ramblings have been written by
michael parrott

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