Why Did the United States Back Away from Pressuring Its

Why did the United States back away from pressuring its European allies to grant self-government to colonies in Asia and Africa?

A) American diplomats valued nations like France more highly for their alliance in the European Cold War.
B) Since the United States was expanding its own empire, it was losing the moral high ground against European colonial powers.
C) American strategists reasoned that national independence in Asia and Africa was likely to benefit the Soviet Union more than the United States.
D) Southern Democrats in Congress did not want to inspire civil rights campaigns at home by supporting national independence in Asia or Africa.