shitting in the international punch bowl must be the best term anyone has ever brought up for it.

I had the "moral authority" discussion with an American exchange student a while ago. He insisted the world still owes America for putting an end to the nazis in WWII, so everything else, including Iraq and anything that may come in the future is by default okay. I mean, WTF? I told him he was a moral authority to the same degree that I was a racist mass-murderer. (Not at all.)