U.S. foreign policy: shockingly, awesomely insulting

Just for the record, there are 6,000 French troops currently serving as peacekeepers in Afghanistan and the Balkans. As they keep watch in places they'd rather not be, I'm sure they all appreciate your gestures. Likewise, the Germans - described by Rumsfeld as a "pariah state" - have 10,000 troops in Afghanistan and the Balkans.

Why should we worry about peacekeeping, nation-building or international cooperation on global problems when we can buy our friends, bully our allies and bomb everybody else? What a glorious future.