Yup, and easier still to cherry-pick examples of US failures—real or imagined—and sweeten them with platitudes about deep-state conspiracies and blood lust. Easy enough if your biggest choice in life is subject/verb agreement on your next post.
As a one-time gov’t “official,” I’d be the first to admit that the US is far from perfect . . . but it is controversial because it’s consequential. For every military quagmire, support for a dictator or ill-fated covert operation there have been nascent democracies established, massive humanitarian investments made and the establishment of a world order that has contained—if not eliminated—the prospect of another world war. Some of these steps have been clearly in our self-interest and some altruistic.
Keeping the gov’t ox out of the ditch is a constant struggle and often it fails. But, as a Canadian immigrant, I’d much rather see the US continue to stumble toward its vision of a world order than have any other super power assume that role. (Russia/China, anyone?)
As for the change in Cuban travel policy, it has nothing to do with anything noble or even in our ultimate self-interest. It’s purely about 2020.