>I didn't write it but to me it means that the U.S. really does
>not have the moral authority to build anybody's democracy.

I think his argument is rather that the U.S. really does not have the legal authority to build anybody's democracy, so it has to be argued on moral grounds instead.

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"If your music was any good it would've
been stolen by the white man by now."

- Triumph the Insult Comic Dog