Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:52:32 -0400, Warp wrote:
> 
>>   Call me nationalistic or whatever you want, but IMO the main
>> responsibility of a government is to protect its own people.
> 
> You don't protect the people of a nation by pissing off the rest of the 
> world, though.

And you don't protect them by letting your policies be limited by the 
opinions foreigners have about those policies.

Let's be frank.  Every nation on the planet that is run by anyone with 
any brains at all makes protection of its own interests the first 
priority of its foreign policy.  The French government does what it 
thinks is best for France, and if the Americans don't like it, the 
French really don't care.  Same goes for the Spaniards with regard to 
Spain, the British with regard to the UK, the Germans with regard to 
Germany, the Russians with regard to Russia, and so on.

The only real difference is that much of the world has this notion that 
the US, and another nation I will not name here, are somehow not 
entitled to place their own interests first, but must, for reasons that 
never bear close scrutiny, place other nations first.

Regards,
John

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