Shaw was wrong. And one needn't believe that their country is right in all things or superior in all things, to believe that it might be right in one (or even many) things.

If the majority of countries from whom we solicited support, but who rejected that solicitation, had not been profitting from the sanctions that were suppose to bring about a peaceful resolution to the Iraq problem, we would never have gone to war. The "starving and being blown to bits unnecessarily" is the stain on THEIR hands.

Socialism is not a necessity so much as an inevitability in any kind of democracy. That's why we employ it to such a great extent here in the USA. But we're not afraid to acknowledge through our vote for both Democrats and Republicans that we understand the same inevitability and strength of market-driven economies by which social programs gain the productivity necessary for their existence.