You have to admit...
That if the U.S. was half the bastard much of the world seems to think it is, most of the planet would be huddling in terror of our disapproval.
We do have self-interest driving much of our foreign policy--and I should hope so--but we have also done a lot of things we didn't have to to help people, too. We are still the most generous nation in helping others, unless you cook the statistics by going to "per capita."