A load of bunkum based on deliberately false presumptions:
Quote:The US invaded Iraq, in George Bush's words, to bring freedom and democracy to the Middle East. The US is a proselytising country. It invokes an historical doctrine for this; US exceptionalism. The US sees itself as the New World, founded on the beliefs of its puritan settlers, many of them refugees from what they saw as the old world. Rumsfeld used these references to challenge France, who refused to support the invasion of Iraq. By "old Europe", Rumsfeld was critiquing the European adherence to treaties, trade deals, and even the UN. By "freedom", Bush meant opening the Middle East up to US trade and investment. By "democracy", he meant US-backed leadership.
None of this is religious. It's naked imperialism. But it does invoke a religious symbolism and purpose that goes back to the founding of the United States as a nation under God rather than kings. The secularism of the US model of government has a religious, Protestant purpose: keeping out the corrupt European religious establishment and the papacy.
In doing this, the US influenced Christianity as a movement based on individual faith. US Pentecostalism, a proselytising expansionist movement, has influenced both the US government and Christianity as a whole. Being "born again" is a uniquely American take on Christianity.
Of course the US did not invade Iraq for religious reasons, but separating religion from US politics is impossible to do. They're interwoven in a sense of resolve and purpose that allows the US to justify its foreign interventions through its expansionist, faith-based notion of US exceptionalism.
What really happened:
America was minding her own business up untill the 2nd world war.
She was then inextricably drawn into world affairs with the Japanese sneak attack on pearl harbour.
America joined the allies, the German alliance was defeated.
Immediately after the 2nd world war communism became the enemy of the free world, in the ensuing cold war period America was the champion of the free world.
The leftwing which was a willing participant of the communist push to destroy the west, then started the campaign to destroy us from within, it's been all downhill since then with more and more leftard policies being implemented to undermine our western values.
In all of this America has been of tremendous value in fight against the threat of drugs.
In the early days once again we saw the lefties with their, more people are killed by tobacco, alcohol etc.etc. excuses, well we all know the toll drug use has had on us up to now.
So the facts are America has been a blessing to the free world, much to the distress of the lefties.