Right off the bat, our only legitimate interest in other countries should be to set up democratic republics like our own, which can grow on their own, so that all the world's refugees don't want to come here! We are among the few countries that have individual liberties.
Why haven't we been exporting THAT? Until we do that, there will be no peace. ( And even after that, because some people are so fanatical that they will hate us no matter what we do.)
Sounds good. However, there's more to why the "American Experiment" was, and is, so blessed. You can't just give folks our set of laws and framework for a constitution and expect it to work if their hearts do not change. Here's some reasons why:
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . .Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. --John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798, Address to the military
Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. --William Penn
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. --George Washington
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. --Benjamin Franklin
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow. --Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjamin Franklin
We have staked the future of American civilization, not upon the power of the government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments. --James Madison
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. --John Quincy Adams
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." --Patrick Henry
We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. --James Madison, chief architect of the Constitution
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evil men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." --Noah Webster
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. --Thomas Jefferson
No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government. --Thomas Jefferson
We ignore their advice at our peril.</font color>