Internationally Ignorant

"Are we truly internationalist? Can we get beyond patriotism? Or, in the end, are we just Americans?"

Are we truly internationalist? No, not at all. We could very easily be a self-suficient nation and we know it. Because we have that thought in the back of our mind, then we don't seem to be a concious about international affairs as we should be. We only care about other nations when we need them...once we have accomplished what we need, we let them be. We may leave them in a worse state than we started, but who cares? We got what we want, right? We don't need them anymore.

I am not saying this is the right mentality to have in any way. By importing, we are helping those nations around us. I completely support this. Granted, I think we should be producing within our own country more than we import, but we can still help those around us. If we cared more about the countries we use, maybe then we can really consider ourselves internationalists, but not until then.