American Pragmatism: as long as it is in our interests, it is right

When I was sleeping on my suitcase in the Atlanta airport, an American policy maker in Iraq was sitting close to me as his flight was cancelled too. After we delved into the conversation of why I saw his president as a neo-imperialist, and why I dislike McDonalds, American pragmatism, and ignorance, he told why I was wrong. "We did a lot of mistakes in Iraq (only?!). But, we're fixing it now. I was working in (X) area in Iraq and we placed (Y) as a local policing his community. Later as he grew popular, he was voted to be governor [...] There was also this one time where we went to (Z)'s house and we asked him to trust us, and that we trusted him totally. The bombings from his side stopped." Did I not tell you I dislike American pragmatism and ignorance?