Americans don't give shit about their image instead they run around the globe toppling governments through CIA, sending bombs, harvesting narcotics to pay for war, they also created the biggest Afghani mafia ring famous for drugs and contraband smuggling, they funded and armed various dissident factions and worst of all created mullahs and talibans we all hate. Seriously im not pulling garbage outta my own mind its well proven reports and confession by CIA itself. Do a google search. After all this, they come up and say "So what".
Violence will always be beaten by peace. Take examples of Prophet SAW. Dying so hard for self-image, it will not feed you at the times of crises but likely to steal your money at the times of prosperity.
Asia Times, Dec. 4, 2001
In the 1980s, top U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials believed that they would never be able to justify a multibillion-dollar budget from the U.S. government to fund the Afghanistani Muslim radicals, the mujahideen, in their fight against the Soviet army, which had occupied Afghanistan. As a result, the CIA decided to generate funds through the poppy-rich Afghan soil and heroin production and smuggling to finance the Afghan war creating the notorious Pashtun Mafia. Ayub Afridi, a radical Pashtun Muslim leader and drug baron, was the kingpin of this plan.
