America as the world’s self-appointed judge, jury and executioner? “We must face the fact,” President John F. Kennedy once said, “that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient — that we are only 6% of the world’s population — that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94% of mankind — that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity — and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.”
Here’s “a very good read”:http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0322-01.htm by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. which includes the above quote. I agree so strongly, it gave me chills reading it.
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