It's only slightly over the top. I could throw tons of examples at you, and you could counter them, because frankly, in politics and world events, almost everything can be cited and then countered. I'd throw out the Marshall plan, then you'd say how it was completely in the United States self-interest. I'd talk about how the US almost completely built or rebuilt the infrastructure of past or future enemies like Japan and Iran, you'd counter with 'Hey, but you're the ones who trampled on Japan' and then 'Yeah, but you set up the Shah and he was a butcher'. I suppose I'll stick with something more simple then... The good that the United States has done completely outweighs the bad, and we gave a lot more than we got, or expected to get.