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We did, after all, defeat slavery, facism, nazism, communism, and a host of evil dictators while we were at it. Does this excuse us supporting other dictators, killing democratically elected leaders, etc? Definitely not in all cases. It remains a serious stretch, however, to claim that the United States has lost the high ground.
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Defeated slavery? We were the only people who still allowed slavery. If anything we kept it alive past it's time. As for nazism, fascism, etc. that was ONE WAR. And we fought it because if we didn't the country would have been destroyed. It wasn't morality but common sense which led us to fight in WWII. Both of the wars we fought trying to prevent communism were unsuccessful and only fought so we could hold on to our status as the superpower. Communism eventually just fizzled out on its own because in the end it was a crappy system that left it's people with a complete and utter lack of motivation to do anything.
The success of America has nothing to do with morality. It's just a matter of the right system at the right place, at the right time.