On Jan 30, 7:49*pm, David Spain quoted, in part:

“It’s gratuitously provocative. America has more than enough hegemony as it
is. And frankly, military dominance provokes responses. The easy way is to
corrupt them with our culture. That’s the tradeoff.”

That is simply untrue. The United States does not have enough military
hegemony to liberate Tibet, and it did not have enough military
hegemony to prevent the invasion of Georgia. Humans are still coming
to harm because of the unrestrained possession of military capability
on the part of non-democratic nations.

It is true that Hollywood and Coca-Cola and rock and roll have given
America a great influence on the world. However, they did not prevent
9/11. While they may be promoting unrest in Iran, I would expect their
influence to be too gradual to prevent Iran from becoming able to
launch a nuclear warhead against Israel, and some of their public
statements indicate they would be willing to do so despite the
likelihood of retaliation.

For that matter, they didn't *even* prevent the attack on the *Alfred
Murrah Federal Building*.

Getting troops anywhere quickly, however, isn't really a military cure-
all. It might even be more applicable in things like disaster relief.

John Savard