Ok so maybe it's off topic but seems worth interjecting...
The Yankees do undeniably intervene in imperialistic fashion, they have many times in South America and elsewhere. Nonetheless Lisa, for once, kind of has a point. What's going on in Tibet is every bit as bad as what's going on in Israel so far as I can see and China can also be suspected of harboring imperialist motives, after all Marxism does call for a worldwide revolution. They are exerting their influence all over the world, quietly taking over, and though I have no love for capitalism it does allow (at least for the consumer rather than producer countries) a degree of personal freedom not found in communism, like being able to criticize the government without being shipped off to some kind of gulag. Actually China is barely even communist economically at this point, it combines capitalist economics with communist lack of any basic human rights.
I even heard that Mao wanted a nuclear war because it would finish with the US imperialists... and then what, China takes over the world that is left... Another kind of imperialism, and a very sick one at that.
Of course maybe the elites in the West actually want to create some kind of communo-fascist state but at least for the moment there are some kinds of protections offered by human rights conventions and such, though some are being dismantled in the name of the "War on Terror".
Returning to the subject...
I think it's right to say generally one shouldn't judge soldiers too harshly. They may be somewhat blind to the reality of what they're doing, but I don't think they are all bad people. I've met actual psychopaths who have joined the army but also some quite fundamentally decent people. Most people unfortunately lack the political consciousness to understand how they are being used, it's the sinister elites who send them into battle for nefarious ends who are really doing wickedness consciously.
There is no excusing for example Vietnam, this was effectively a genocide, something in the range of two million or more killed. In neighbouring Cambodia they firebombed agricultural lands so that they would become infertile.
Many, many crimes like this have been committed by the USA's military, and it's true that it's by far the best funded in the world, they could resolve poverty and famine worldwide with the money they spend in one year.
So I will never be "tired of the America bashing" as Lisa puts it, but I think there are other aspects of what's going on right now which we shouldn't ignore...