A British site is condemning the US military? How droll. Let's see how many operations the UK government and Israel or even the UN for that matter supported the US when its out-of-hand military was on a rampage. The UN is - on the surface - a bold attempt to keep dialogue between nations civil, but let's not forget the UK's tampering in just about every continent on the globe - including helping (with Spain and others) to instantiate slave trades. The USA is almost like a "spin-off series" of the UK and 9/11 is kind of like some weird "cross over Christmas special".
Shall we compile a "guilt list" or leave the toll at a "disgusting collaboration of death"?
Although our job on this planet isn't to judge one another, maybe the USA only can look at itself from a distance and we need to be reflected in each other to help change. If that's true, why hasn't much of the UN struggle been about nurturing countries to treat their citizens with more respect? It seems you could have 100 ambassadors there and it wouldn't improve the lot of the poor.
I am not pointing the finger at you, fbenario, this is a useful list and I appreciate the rarity of being forced to see it as an American. (Thank you sir can I have another sir!)
I just get sick of the European hypocrisy though, sometimes. I think the European citizens are sick of it too, which is why they try to awaken their own governments to the flawed message the USA is exporting. There are groups of miltarist idiots across the "Western" world and USA has played an integral part in corrupting so many governments. But think of how many countries were "inspired" by the USA's behavior and then want to condemn it at the same time. Italy is an embarrassing example. I visited for what I admired, and ran into many Italians who wish to become a Little America. The illness begins at home. If so many countries stopped working with the USA and indulging in and copying its sickest forms - chemicals for "food", celebrity worship "entertainment", and all the other addictive drugs the USA has invented/refined, etc. - the worst form of the economy would be forced to change. Resisting addictions and the "coolness" of being damaged is like the biggest struggle humanity has right now. That's how we boiled it down in the historical development page, too:
http://septemberclues.org/historical.htm
If we cannot - as citizens of all countries - figure out what we are addicted to and purge our addictions, we're going to have a hard time of kicking the habits the USA promotes as "culture" or a "way of life". USA is like the largest drug dealer in the world, and its "War on Drugs" is just meant to keep their monopoly on them - kind of like their "War on Terror" is meant to keep their monopoly on violence and fearmongering.
Again, cool list, and necessary to be taught in USA schools for sure, but it's a deeper problem. And I wish there were some effective way to separate the labels belonging to governments and those same labels applied to the struggling/burgeoning citizens uprising.