I rarely agree with this view of the U.S., but now I do in the case of the U.S. beginning another war in the Middle East.
Libya: Another quagmire beckons.
In the short space of a decade, the U.S. has made war in three Muslim nations, and Canada in two. For many Muslims, any just cause for these conflicts is beside the point. Shoddy affairs like Rep. Peter King (R-NY)’s congressional witchhunt on Muslims are easily enough overlooked in Karachi and Jakarta. But Western military attacks on sovereign Muslim nations can’t help but appear to many of the world’s estimated 1.2 billion to 1.6 billion Muslims - or about 20% of the world population - as a determined assault on the Muslim world.
http://thestar.blogs.com/davidolive/2011/03/libya-another-quagmire-beckons.html
And you think that having a public discussion about how many of those are in the US is a "shoddy affair?"
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're either senile, or just arrived from another planet.