US foreign policy reminds me of a global police department. It's

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US foreign policy reminds me of a global police department.
It's real fashionable to hate cops. People hate being told what to do or how to act. People hate the use of force and intimidation. Cops can't always be trusted to act lawfully and they sure as hell can't be trusted to police themselves. If the law is inconvenient to them, "well, fuck you! I AM the law."
Which this country has done.
But, the police are a necessary evil.
The LAPD's motto is "To protect and serve."
When I was a kid in Los Angeles, The LAPD had an unofficial motto: "to intimidate the intimidators."
And that's what they did, and that's why gangsters flea like cockroaches with the lights turned on when the LAPD would roll around.
It feels like the USA is like the LAPD of the world. Trigger happy, in everyones face at all times, trying to maintain order in a chaotic environment, beefing up it's presence in problemed areas, demanding control over a situation and hated and loved at the same time.
When they do good, yeah whatever, it's expected of them. Good, moving on.
When they fuck up, It's international news and it is put under a hell of a magnifying glass and emphasized.
I know it's arrogant and sugarcoated to say stuff like this, but that's just how it feels.