Perhaps a little 'far afield' from our topic, but you remind me of a particularly ignorant anti-Muslim screed by then-UAA student Daniel McDonald five years ago. The "Northern Lights" ran my rebuttal in its entirely, and my challenge for McDonald to respond.  Alas, he was too cowardly.  But I find this excerpt relevant to your posts:

"Your argument is merely a more circumspect retelling of Kipling's 'White Man's Burden'--it somehow always becomes 'necessary' for you civilized, secularized 'Christians' to invade, kill, enslave and dispossess other peoples in order to maintain 'stability' in a dangerous world--in so doing you fall into the logical fallacy of confusing military 'superiority' (and the economic largess derived there-from) with cultural, ethical and spiritual superiority.  You are of course wrong as hell.  All that can honestly be conceded to your arrogant assumptions of 'superiority' is that your society is superior at killing.  And that's always a TEMPORARY situation."