Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
At the end of the day the USA is still the good guy.
I think a nation as powerful as the United States is far too complex to be described in terms of good and evil. Really, I think that it's impossible to describe any nation in such terms except for extreme cases such as Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia etc. America does many things I would consider to be good, but it also does many things I would not consider good. However, it also depends on how the word "good" is defined in this instance. At a very basic level, the primary goal of the nation is to look after it's own citizens and perhaps that is the only way which it should be judged. However, the very structure of the nation and the interconnectedness of our world means that a country, particularly one as powerful as America, has such scope and impact worldwide that some consideration must be given for the way its actions impact others.

I guess that was a long-winded way of saying I have no idea if America is "good" or not as I don't even know how to define "good" in this instance...