you have a point but also dont forget someone who have never been in usa but have lots of friends from usa that have told u how it is living there alot during many years etc etc also gives quite a good picture of how it is living in a countrie specialy in "bigger pictures" like paying high tax for army while u get very little back and have to struggle for simple health care. the cultural diffrences etc are more hard understanding from stories so its not all lived there vs statistics its also other ways of learning about it ;) and amarican foreign policies are basicly imperialists when european empires crumbled in ww2 usa took over it not by marching armies everywhere like colonial eurpeans but mainly through economics and political pressure and if that dident work as last resorts war like vietnam iraq etc also someone mentioned earlier saddam killed 750'000? do people count the iraq iran war or what is that couse he dident "musterd gas" that many