Yeah that mentality worked so well in...Vietnam, who we were never able to defeat militarily. Iraq in 2003 remember Bush with all of his swagger, we are tough and you better not mess with us, 7 TRILLION dollars later massively in debt thousands of lives lost and destroyed. Over a decade of war and now what we have to go back AGAIN, because the third time will be so different.  Superpower? Yeah that worked so great for the British and Soviets and now us in Afghanistan. If we are so tough then why don't we ever win? Did you actually say freedom as if this had anything to do with freedom. The US is not nor has it ever been interested in exporting freedom and in fact we have all but abandoned it here at home, just as Murrow predicted. It is because of people like you who don't read or have an education that stupid crap like this missile attack is allowed to happen.