At Westpoint President Obama gave a speech to the graduating class - in which he renewed the American claim on "global leadership".

It's "leadership" allright!

• internet surveillance of almost every other nation in the world
• highest rate of incarceration*
• highest rate of deaths by firearms*
• highest military budget*
• lowest education budget*
• racial inequality
• drone killings
  (no separation of powers)
• death penalty in more than half of all States
  (where out of 100 executions 4 innocents are killed)
• poisoning the environment by fracking
• highest energy consumption*

 
• "bubbles"
  • dot-com bubble,
  • Wall Street bubble,
  • financial asset & real estate bubble,
  • student loan bubble
• etc

In violation of the Constitution, State Laws, International Humanitarian Law, General International Law, etc. ....
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* on a per capita basis / in the world

*update*
(09.06.2014)

Also see this article