[jambutty]

The best way to avoid such conflicts is to seed as many democracies as we can.

Who is America to say that country so and so should have a democracy bullseyebarb?

The best way to avoid military conflicts is to allow countries to govern themselves in their own way and not try to impose the “western” way. Then do honest trade with them without strings. Sadly America wants the cake and the halfpenny and tried to use muscle to get it.

If America went to war for land and oil, etc., then where the hell are they?

I never mentioned land. There are warlords and dictators in Africa with millions being starved but no oil or gas in their land. I don’t see America going in to impose a democracy.

Pardon me, but I believe Great Britain is the country that had the largest Empire ever known.

The operative word there is HAD. But we weren’t the only nation to boast of an empire. France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands and Belgium are a few that spring to mind.

You don’t have to look very hard to find skeletons in every country’s cupboard.