Enlightened?

The manner in which United States society is governed is completely based on the ideas of trhe Enlightenment. Ideas such as, validity of reason which lead to natural laws that give all people natural rights. In the public eye a leader is not given power by divine right but by the reason of the people. I say the public eye because some ignorant people actually believed W. Bush when he said he had divine power. Thank goodness that did not gain momentum because that would have been a step back in terms of us being an enlightened society. Since we are a moderately enlightened society public sovereignty exists relatively. I use the terms moderately and relatively because America's road from the Enlightenment is not as extreme as French philosophes would have endorsed.
America says as the French did that they are on a mission to spread freedom and enlightenment to all nations. The question is, "Is it an enlightened act to force freedom upon other nations?". I feel that it is not because all people have reasoning, then if they reason not to be free then let them be. The western world has always had this idea that they have an almost innate responsibility to enlighten the world with Christianity and western knowledge. This implies absolutism, in that Western knowledge and religion is spread as if it is universal. Yet, religion, politics and knowledge are not based on absolute truth these are based on relative truth. So to force western ways may not be the right way. Other nations may have a way of governing that meets the needs of their circumstances, culture and history. I can understand America wanting to preserve the natural rights of people all over the world but we should go about the process in a different manner. Not by implementing the exact governing policies of the western world but maybe working together with representatives of those nations. It is not enlightened to suppose that the ideas of the western world will suffice for the rest of the world. It is enlightened to assume that all opinion matters no matter if it is not western because reasoning differs.