No one side always (if ever) wears the ‘white hats’ in international relations. International relations are about national survival, and the US, like every major power before it , has more than a little blood on its hands in achieving its national goals. I know many won’t agree with me, but I’d make so bold to say that being oppressed by the US, as many small nations have been over the last 60 years, has frequently been an easier if still bitter yoke to bear for the majority of those oppressed than the alternative.
Anyone with even a passing interest in the events that will soon take place should do themselves a HUGE favour and buy a book that will explain much of what’s happened and is about to happen in chilling, prophetic detail, right down to the author’s assertion that the next war would not be between nation states, but ideas.
I cannot urge you too strongly to find this book and read it. 'The Coming Anarchy' by Robert D. Kaplan, ISBN 0-375-70759-X