Unconstrained by any superpower rival or system of global governance, the US governmen has rewritten the global financial and trading system in its own interest; ripped up a string of treaties it finds inconvenient; sent troops to every corner of the globe; bombed Afghanistan, Sudan, Yugoslavia and Iraq without troubling the United Nations; maintained a string of murderous embargos against recalcitrant regimes; and recklessly thrown its weight behind Israel's 34-year illegal military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as the Palestinian intifada rages.
"No, the US is being targeted for highly-specific political and military reasons. The sooner We Americans wake up to the fact that our government's foreign policy is more of a problem than a solution, then there's a chance we can all work together to solve this crisis in a peaceable and sane manner."