This kind of detached and effete attitude is putrid and a clear sign of such impudence that it is a definitive sign of one's sanity if it makes one ill.

Nothing screams detached entitlement than arm chair criticism in the absence of rational thought and intellect.

At no time in all of humanity has ever a power existed that has shown as much restraint as the people of the USA. Call it a sign of overabundant achievement and plenty that we can afford such pathological altruism if you like, but it is nothing but astonishing that the USA and the people that created it have not used that power to any degree that is even worth noting, regardless of the effete impudent spoiled rotten, entitled snob class wants to nit pick in the absence of legitimate fault.

I do agree with you though in one regard, we should not be engaged with the world the way the USA is right now. We should be spending basically all research resources on discovering viable alternatives to oil for both energy and, more importantly, materials, so that we can pull back into the USA and slam the doors shut on the petulant savages that keep trying to tear the USA down all the while as they benefit from and take advantage of and have zero respect for us for everything that we do ... all the while demanding that the corrosive savages be allowed to storm our gates and freeload off us.

Take the EU, the most vile and sick petulant spoiled rotten snobs the world has ever seen, as they insult and try to damage us after having saved them from authoritarianism (which we apparently shouldn't have), rebuilt the European economy, have been protecting them with our military paid for by our citizens being robbed of both money and opportunity, and subsidizing their industry through imbalanced tolls and tariffs, all so they could offer "free" healthcare and "free" education, paid for by American tax payers that have been robbed and stolen from for decades now to support spoiled rotten brats not just in self-important Europe, but all around the world.

Guess why you are able to dialogue on this site, and why Silicon Valley even exists when nothing even remotely like it exists anywhere else, and why does the USA exist that everyone wants to parasitize and freeload off, and why you have democracy and freedom ... yes, because of that evil evil military that has been doing nothing but keeping the deepest most heinous impulses of all the alternatives to the USA from expressing themselves, is why you are free and why your life has been improving and why it is better than that of your parents.

The disrespect stops here and you will start having to face the reality of what it means not to be able to take advantage of the American people and are in for a rude awakening when you realize that you were spitting in our face and ridiculing us and making fun of this, that, and the other thing while not having the most basic sense to not bite the hand that fed you for so long and you took for granted like the spoiled rotten brants you are.

How about addressing why we are having to conduct extrajudicial assassinations of people in order to keep not just the USA safe, but YOU safe and YOUR economies from failing when, e.g., muslims overthrow the vile yet necessary Saudi authoritarian regime. You want to be so stupidly high and mighty and self-righteous from your little armchair? ... How about you go do that in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and Somalia or China? Leave the evil evil west and USA, go flee to the far more morally superior noble savage society you put on a delusional pedestal. And sure as hell stop using anything America and the American people in the American military have produced; no more computers, no internet, definitely cannot be on site site or any social media, you can't use GPS or mobile phones, and you can't use planes. The list goes no and on. So stop using all the things you spoiled rotten brats take for granted.