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So we've got the big bullseye painted on our back, it's a prerequisite of the job I'm afraid. I don't think we should let that get us all riled up and talking isolationism. When you're on top of the hill everyone else can see and get a shot off at you, but there's advantages to being up there too.
The thing I find most interesting is that many of the countries who complain most bitterly about our unilateral behavior are just as likely to behave similarly when they can get away with it. For instance... in the Middle East there's bitter anger towards the US for supporting Israel, yet most of those same countries support the Palestinian fight for a homeland. If the US stopped supporting Israel does that mean that all the Arab countries in the region would stop supporting the Palestinians and let those two peoples work out their differences however they might? Not bloody likely.
And then there's Iraq... squawking about how the "Imperialist" Americans should not be interfering with Middle East affairs. Hmm... so if we're "Imperialists", what does that make a country who would arbitrarily decide to Annex another country. Seems that Saddam needs to dig out a dictionary and do some word searches.
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