Honestly Arash jaan, calling what the US does colonialism is more than a bit of a stretch. First, we (all Iranians) have to come to grips with the fact that the US is a major world power (as is the EU, Japan, Russia and China) and as every major power in the past 3000 years, they have a large circle of influence and say in what happens in the world. That world has gotten a bit bigger than the time of Cyrus or Mohammad, but the game hasn't changed - only the players have. N
Now, for us or the Egyptians or the rest of the Arabs or the Spaniards in S. America to all of a sudden become sour pusses about the same game that we all played and played for a very long time (in all cases Centuries versus the few decades in US's case), we would just be hypocrites and sore losers, wouldn't we? Most people and countries in the world have accepted this, that their time came and went and the players and rules of the game have changed - even the Russians!
You only have a few countries left in the world with governments that are completely stuck in the past who have not accepted that they never were or in our case, no longer are, major players at the world stage. Coincidentally, those are the countries with the highest corruption and least freedoms, like Cuba, N. Korea, Iran and Venezuela, all of which have huge potentials and beautiful people who suffer under the weight of these policies. You can run a few nuclear tests or put a monkey in space or... and maybe scare a few people here and there, but at the end of the day, the world is laughing at us. It's not right to think that we live in a vacuum from the rest of the people on this planet and only our opinions matter and theirs don't. C
I'm not saying we shouldn't be a major player in the world, quite the contrary... If we want to become a major player we do need to at least acknowledge the views of other people and nations and the more views that we acknowledge and respect, the more of a player we will become - just like China did 20 years ago and has been doing since. How many times have you heard the Chinese refer to US colonialism in the past few years? Currently, those who respect the views of our government are Hamas, Hezbollah, a small fraction of Syria, a few non-players in Africa and some disillusioned people in the Arab world - not exactly the fan club that we should be proud of!
The large majority of the world don't look at things the way you do and wouldn't agree with your colonialism attitude. They may go as far as saying that the US stuck its nose in too many countries' affairs under George W. but that's it. And I agree with that assessment and you too have to stop thinking about the US as a monogenous society and accept that there are many people even in the US that do not agree with those interventionist policies. Is that wasn't the case, Obama would not have been elected for two terms. If you believe that it's not US's job to police the world with all its military, relative social stability and economic might and freedoms that allow balanced representation of views, surely you can't believe that it's our job to do that (policing the world or countering the US) with a few blue submarines, a collapsed economy, and a society that forces a single view on its people and is at the verge of an implosion.