TurnRightthenleft has a point. If we apply his point and go back to the instability of Afghanistan which gave the Whitehouse the excuse to invade Iraq the U.S and the world would have been better off allowing the Soviet Union occupy Afghanistan. The U.S.S.R would not have tolerated Islamic extremism and Iran and the U.S.S.R would have viewed each other as a threat thereby preventing arms trading between the two. Afghanistan would have been closed as a highway between Pakistan to the middle east. Iraq could always have been kept in the U.S pocket even with the invasion of Kuwait. Saddams crimes would have continued but could have been reduced through carrot and stick diplomacy. Extremists in Pakistan would be focused on the U.S.S.R and not the U.S. It all sounds Machiavellian but compared to the mess we are in now the world would be a safer and less hostile.

So, America does not understand a world.

No problem-as far as America makes world understanding the USA.