[The_Rorschach]

"Though I agree with you that a nationalistic foreign policy does apply to all countries, a reckless one does not. I think this comparison for the most part is being made to show how both had/have little to no concern for what the rest of the world thinks of their actions. Let's just hope we don't step on the wrong foreign toes. Or too many of them"

That is just it though Vibe. . .When is it that we suddenly became beholden to the entire world? These countiess are not our peers, they are not equals, they are not even friends. We are a sovereign nation,. sovereign, and people seem to have forgotten that. They call the world today a global community.

Thats a misnomer.

There is nothing communal about the world. They are not friends and neighbours who we see on sunday afternoon barbeques, they are treacherous allies and outright foes. We gave Prague to Stalin in order to placate the "global community" and I'll be damned if the US makes concessions to the petty tyrants of Peace time and time again. I'm not saying might makes right, but I am saying that there is no country out there that is expected to meet the high standards put on the US. Rememeber France and the Atoll bombings? Remember North Korea and their manufactoring of fissionable material? Remember Russia and a Afghanistan? Remember China and Taiwan?

The list goes on and on. We are no more reckless than anyone else.