Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
Well I said idea not practice. I never perpetuated a slogan.
Yep, IMO, the American ideal is perfectly fine only the manner its being implemented. Just look at the mess we're in right now....

What the US should never do is what Koga No Goshi mentioned earlier: maintain a mindset of superiority over the rest of the world that ends up breeding ignorance. Just look at Ming dynasty China. The chinese civilization was arguably the best in the world during the beginning of their reign so the Ming emperors just took a look around, burned down the world's biggest fleet, and shut down Chinese interaction with the rest of the world. Thus, China missed out on all of the European innovations and ended up in a huge mess that still partially accounts for China's relative instability right now.