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A comment on America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012). Parent comment

Re:America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012) by powertower on Monday June 24, 2013 @12:18PM (#5933888)
Self-interests are what drives all foreign policies, regardless of country.

It's a competition/race, and America has been winning at it for the last century.

The others' moral opposition and distaste with the USA is a product of them not finishing first in this race.

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Re:America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012) by figglesonrails on Monday June 24, 2013 @12:52PM (#5934118)
Abstractly, perhaps, but I think we can say that there are more concrete reasons why a nation may dislike the USA. I'm not arguing for or against the USA as a power here, just that this just seems too much of an oversimplification of the issue. This isn't a board game with scores and tokens. Mapping the complexities of nations over a 100 years into such an analogy just doesn't fit right in my head.
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