Ah a, I see, therefore I was right:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44605.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44604.htm
Thank you for reminding that about that "complicit" thing.
You should be proud.
And let me be clear, if any of the Western European countries (or Aus/NZ) were an option, I'd take them over Russia and China too.
If you're not American, substitute your country for "US". My point is that it's easy for you to say you'd take the US over Russia, China etc any day because it's already your country. To everyone else though it's just a foreign power threatening them with military might.
Let's look at it another way. If the US were a small country and Canada was a superpower (democratic), would I be annoyed when Canada throws its weight around? Probably, in the grand scheme of things it could be much worse.
There's no other way to describe a political entity that will bomb your village to kill one man it suspects may be somehow involved in an insurgency against its military. Not to mention all the other brutal stuff the US does.
I'm saying: you don't like dictatorships. Great, but your country is the world's own brutal dictator. It could be much worse, OK, but it could also be a lot better, if your country didn't "throw its weight around". Or its bombs. Or its army etc.
(Again, that is _if_ you're American, which I don't know).