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Are you talking about Nicaragua? A bunch of thugs took over promising democracy, but after 8 years of rule it looked as though the population wanted to vote in a non-leftist political party so the Sandinastas start brutalising the population and intimidating political opponents. The US stepped in to preserve democracy, the sandinastas were voted out in free and fair elections and now the US is the bad guy.
Also the US are the underdogs, they are a nation of people kicked out of europe, asia and africa, the unwanted huddled masses yearning to breathe free! Even native americans were kicked out of their land. The competition between pepsi and coke was so fierce the cold war became a pawn in their game, these are the classic properties of the underdog.
As much as you salivate to the idea of wearing a beret and tromping through the jungle with an AK47, intimidating villages for the better good in the fallacious belief that the dictatorship of the proletariat will actually work and this is all justified, the true underdogs are the plucky entrepeneurs who gave people what they really want, televisions, air conditionners, convertibles, microwaves, designer clothes, telecommunications etc etc.. People who actually make a difference.
Think about it, does anyone consider Ghengis Khan on a daily basis? He was an absolute genius, his achievements were on a super-human scale, armies that had been refined to the pinnacle of medieval warfare were wiped away by his warriors, his empire stretched from sunrise to sunset. However 200 years later he was forgotten, just a mythical figure. 200 years after Isaac Newton, Richard Arkwright and certainly 200 years after Benz, Gray and Bell people will still be affected by their ideas in every day life.
The US is a plucky underdog because it influences the lives of everyone on the planet without having to pull a gun to their head.