While Simon Bolivar has been right for 200 years, the US is not doomed to act this way forever. Trump and allied leaders at the Shield of the Americas summit in March, 2026 -- public domain image By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Common Dreams Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear(s) to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” For 200 years, US leaders have never prov