The US has become too much a slave of our own rhetoric to be very effective in the gray zone today. Our belief in American Exceptionalism, and how good intentions and working within the law to violate the sovereignty of another will somehow make us exempt from the laws of human nature in regards to the resistance and revolutionary insurgency such actions naturally provoke. Sure, if someone "evil" or "aggressive " or "malign" does it - but not if we do...

Adding this series to my watch list.