United is one of the largest airlines in the world and has one of the largest frequent-flier programs. It is also a member of Star Alliance, a global network including Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, US Airways, Air Canada and All Nippon Airways, and it has other airline partners that passengers can earn and redeem miles on. That network means members of United's Mileage Plus program can use the miles to travel to many countries.
America was also our protector and insurance policy. It ended the war in the Pacific and saved us from joining Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. It saved us from the spread of Communism in South-East Asia, and kept the balance of power during the Cold War. Even as we came to understand the terrible inhumanity of the bomb and ferociously disagree over the Vietnam War, nuclear deterrence and now the war on terror, our debates have largely followed those in the US itself. And all the while our imitation of its popular culture never faltered. Nor are we really alone in this. Absent a few mullahs and the chattering classes, doesn't the whole world want to be American?
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