That's happened quite a few times, and a lot of the current shitstorm in the Middle East might not be quite so bad if we didn't have such a nasty habit of manufacturing dictators.
But I still think our
overall track record as a nation is pretty admirable. We're not the only ones to leave big-ass messes behind - we spent most of the twentieth century cleaning up the mess that imperialistic powers like Great Britain and France made of the
nineteenth century. Everyone's got some skeletons in the closet. It's just that we as a nation aren't permitted the luxury of a closet door.
