My beef with American arrogance is not that we act like a traditional great power, occasionally knocking off foreign bad guys who richly deserve it. My problem is that we don't know when to stop--the trivial victories we insist on having in arenas that are quite superfluous...like victories in women's hockey (2002 with a score USA-12, China-1). I say we keep the big ones for ourselves (laser guided munitions, Google, Warren Buffet for example). Let the rest of the world have ice hockey, ballroom dancing, all the Nobel Prizes, and the Ryder Cup.
