Expanding personal freedoms. You must be joking. Empires and those who control them have always deluded themselves about the superiority of their culture over that of others. The world is fed up with hearing about US exceptionalism.
I suppose that carpet bombing from 20000 ft with B52s was just a necessary phase in expanding personal freedom ?
Read what this Vietnamese man who had both legs blown off has to say about freedom
Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam
Maybe the death squads in Latin America were also a necessary step on the road to personal freedom, or the Pinchet coup in Chile.
Or perhaps the couple of million Iraqi refugees in Syria, that the US has not lifted a finger to help.
It is the big lie that US empire has anything to do with freedom.