And what makes us the world's sole superpower, and remarkably tolerant of bitching and whining from the client states.
I think you have your tense (makes) wrong here TB, and the tonnages of munitions expended every year also draws a question as to the reality of the mentioned tolerance.
Unless of course you're drawing attention to the influx of the downtrodden to your shores. Why share with them the American dream just as it's in the process of what seems terminal decay?