"If there has to be only one superpower on this planet, the United States is the best choice for the job."

Another litmus test between conservatives and liberals is their respective attitudes toward the United States' role in the world. Liberals feel some prurient reassurance in the notion that the world's premier democracy is secretly controlled by a hidden oligarchy which manipulates international crises for monetary gains. Conservatives accurately note that the United States' foreign policy provides a host of resources while generally asking nothing more from foreign populations than that they not trouble America's peace. Over at Mullings: An American Cyber-column By Rich Galen there is this reminder:

Memmott, ends his piece with a quote from a returning refugee:
"We are thankful to the US and its allies for kicking out the Taliban. We have freedom and security. We are living peacefully."
This article should be distributed to every school child in America on September 11th with the simple message:
This is what we do.
This is what Americans do.
It should also be distributed to all 40,000 PKCs at that Summit in Johannesburg with THIS message:
The Afghan people got their nation back;
That is within the capability of the Earth's only superpower.
Nothing was asked in return;
Because the Earth's only superpower is the United States of America.