You live in a dream world. I don't care what the "average American" thinks because he doesn't make policy. The US has military bases in nearly every country on the globe. Its CIA operates everywhere. Its corporations, hardly "American" in an ethnic sense, control much of the planet's wealth. You're arguing the impossible; your position is absurd and based on flag-waving mythology than reality --- Maybe global affairs is not your thing.
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