Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.
You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
Even ivory towers need central heating.
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.