William Blum sez: "No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."

If you flip over the rock of American foreign
policy of the past century, this is what crawls out ...

invasions ... bombings ... overthrowing
governments ... suppressing movements
for social change ... assassinating
political leaders ... perverting
elections ... manipulating labor unions ...
manufacturing "news" ... death squads ...
torture ... biological warfare ...
depleted uranium ... drug trafficking ...
mercenaries ...

(http://www.killinghope.org)
It's not a pretty picture.
It is enough to give imperialism a bad name.