Is the US a force for good in the world?-video

Mehdi Hasan goes head to head with Thomas Friedman on the morality of America's global role.

Thomas Friedman may have won the Pulitzer Prize 3 times but he is and always has been an apologist  for President George W. Bush's foreign policy.  He's known for Friedman units which implied that within six months democracy would breakout in Iraq. 

Critics say American self-interest has trumped democracy and human rights time and again, and that Obama’s America is no different. So is the US foreign policy counter-productive? Or is America a force for good in the world?
The US “is not an NGO”, admits Friedman, explaining that America “is a country like any country with its interests, it pursues them, and sometimes pursues them very narrowly.”