Have you looked at our balance of payments over the last several DECADES???

We're not "forcing" our culture on the rest of the world! They're selling us everything they have and then taking the money and INVESTING HERE! They're investing in our stock markets, buying our companies, buying our land, buying our Treasury Bonds and anything else they can get a handle on! They even take our stupid movies!

Our economy would have long collapsed under this huge dollar drain if the citizens of foreign lands were not coming back and INVESTING in America!

Now even those who don't have money are sneaking over our borders BY THE MILLIONS!

We're not "forcing" ourselves on the rest of the world; y'all are grabbing our culture with both hands... and if you can't get it fast enough, you come here to buy it or steal it!

We even elected a president (Bush in 2000) largely because he ran AGAINST "nation building" and promised to focus on domestic issues (i.e. NOT Palestine/Israel, NOT Kosovo, NOT Korea, etc. as Clinton had during the previous administration.)

If we APPEAR now to be "forcing" democracy and open markets upon the 3rd world, be assured it is because we want you guys to be HAPPY OVER THERE! We are very, very (may I say, "DAMN") tired of having you abandon your own countries and running over here to get "justice" and "freedom" and everything else in our culture!

Big suggestion: STAY HOME AND FIX YOUR OWN COUNTRIES and let us live in peace WITHOUT ridiculously high illegal immigration and foreigners trying to buy up our country! YOU go fix Darfur... YOU go fix Thiland... YOU go end racial bias and AIDS in Africa... YOU go rebuild the Middle East after decades of rule by tyrants and religious radicals. Please! Don't let us "force" ourselves upon you one more time!