From the Washington Times' April 20 editorial, titled, “Obama's secret shame”:

At last week's nuclear summit, President Obama said it is a vital U.S. national security interest to reduce conflict, “because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another, we get pulled into them.”

Our question is: What's not to like? The United States has been one of the most beneficent global powers in the history of mankind, a beacon of freedom and a force for good for most of its history. But not everyone agrees - not even the current occupant of the White House.

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The basic undercurrent of Obama foreign policy is that the United States is a fundamentally flawed country that has a lot to answer for. Witness ill-advised policies like rushing to try to close the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to push terrorist trials into civilian courts and to brand CIA interrogation methods as torture. When the president's wife, Michelle Obama, famously informed the nation that, “for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” the statement should be taken as literally true. In these quarters, pre-Obama American history is a catalogue of violence, exploitation, bigotry and injustice.

At some level, the president may feel a sense of shame that the United States is a global superpower. But Mr. Obama is the commander in chief, like it or not.

Previously:

Right-wing media continue to distort Obama's comments on remaining “a dominant military superpower”

Right-wing sites misleadingly crop Obama remarks on being “a dominant military superpower”