RvW:
First of all, I'm not a US citizen.
Secondly, while I do think America-bashing is quite dumb, none of my posts in this thread were actually "supportive" of the US in any way. The one about France was just general smart-assing around and "halelujah" was meant to be ironic. Because it is my opinion that if there's one thing more primitive than an actual penis comparison, it's a penis comparison without actual junks (hurr durr my country has more nukes than your's we would SO beat you hurr durr). So much for that.
now:
That's pretty hypocrite; when was the last time the US fought a war out of "some noble democratic sentiment"?
Where did I say they have? But okay. World War II. And boy am I glad they won.
Don't forget, Europe / the Western World will only stay obedient so long; sooner or later our politicians are going to figure out there's no incentive to roll over every time the USA wants us to
Oh you so sure about that? Way I see it, the Western World as a whole has 99% shared interests, that's why we refer to it with that term. To make clear that it's mostly common goals on both shores of the atlantic on a geopolitical level, despite some superficial (and rather minor) differences. Those goals include: secure global trade routes, secure access to raw materials, keep up "stability" at the periphery as much as possible (we don't want all those refugees...).
The Netherlands is part of NATO. The Netherlands has an export oriented economy. AFAIK, the Netherlands take part in that counter-piracy mission off the Somali coast. So does Germany. And France. And most other NATO countries, too.
Now, do they do that out of some "noble democratic sentiment"? No, they don't. They do it to secure global trade routes. Why did France, GB & the US "intervene" in Lybia? To 'stabilize' the periphery, most likely. And to secure access to some raw materials (oil^^). All economic reasons, we agree about that.
But there is no "peace-loving Europe", and there is no "big bad jingoistic US imperium". There is no easy black and white. It's all one and the same -> one big pile of grey shit.
War is waged for money. Around the globe. Noone is "the good boy". To say otherwise is either very naive or, yeah, hypocritical.