Fedral wrote:Why is it that citizens of other countries with a democratic tradition of electing their leaders are allowed to choose leaders based on what is best for their countries, yet if Americans make their choice based upon the same criteria, they are somehow being 'tyrannical' or uncaring to the rest of the world?
LOL! Fair point.
Problem is, your country is so big, powerful and pushy in a whole variety of ways that your president has such a big effect on the rest of us that we sort of feel we ought to get a say!
The same would be, and has been, true of any similarly big, powerful and pushy country.
Regionally, countries tend to feel similarly interested in other countries' governments. For example, Malaysia and Indonesia and Singapore feel very entitled to comment, often quite negatively, on who Australia puts into government. This is life. We live with it. We take a major interest in them and China and Japan, too.
