America needs to re-think its position in the grand scheme of things

It's silly for you to say that America was "fighting Communism" and trying to bestow liberty and freedom upon an "underdeveloped" nation. I find that a condescending and atrocious philosophy. The US didn't care anything about freeing humans from bondage. They simply wanted a foothold in foreign trade and commerce... along with world domination and imperialism. You can guess that's what was at the heart of the administration's ideals-- not this romantic idea that America has thrown in our faces and the faces of people all over the world for centuries. Communism was a simple excuse for gaining an advantage in economic affairs. In all truth, America wasn't even a free country itself in 1954. Just look at what was going on: the civil rights movement. Examine any of Martin Luther King's speeches, and you'll see the logic. We were sending youths 8,000 miles away, into horrible conditions, who wouldn't even drink out of the same water fountain if they were in their own country. America needs to have its ego deflated a bit and examine its own affairs before it goes poking its nose into someone else's business, business that it obviously knows nothing about and is not capable of comprehending.