Modest, yes.
I cringe every time the current President of the United States goes on a road trip to tell the world that the United States is now humble, that we will listen to them and consider both enemy and ally advice. You can see a list of his statements here.
I would cringe if I didn't believe that President G.W. Bush was one of the greatest U.S. presidents and that Obama is acting out the worst form of vengeful self-serving political behavior on a world stage, when he criticizes the past president.
I cringe primarily because the characterization of the U.S. as humble is linguistically wrong and sociologically ignorant. We are not humble we are modest. There is a big difference that this affirmative action president and his cohorts don't understand.
Humble has the qualities of: meek, submissive and lowly. None of these characterize the U.S. We are more likely to fight back, resist and confront our enemies than any other people on earth. We will also fight for other people's rights like no other people on earth. Humble, schmuble. Obama you are using the wrong word!
Modest
is the right word. We Americans are unpretentious, never arrogant, we never claim
credit for our towering achievements in freedom, democracy, personal creativity, compassion and commercial vitality. In five words: we are great but
plain.
We have intervened in other people's wars to save more humans than ever existed before 1900, we have sacrificed more of our citizens on behalf of others than any nation in history, we have destroyed imperial empires to free people everywhere on the planet and never demanded colonial rights, every year in every disaster we give more aid and support than the rest of the world put together. We are modest about it.
Americans are modest not humble. Learn English you leftwing Neanderthals and stop embarrassing the decent people who are the overwhelming, but modest, people of America.