[AChimp]

Originally Posted by The actual article

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.

Originally Posted by VinceZeb

Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return

And you expect us to treat you with any credibility? You took Powell's remarks completely out of context.

The Archbishop also didn't mention anything about "empire building," but instead asked about whether or not the U.S. would rely on being friendly rather than sabre-rattling in the future.

There's also no mention of the room going silent, except maybe out of the general social norm that you don't talk while someone else is talking.