"Americans hate foreign policy.  Americans hate foreign policy, because Americans hate foreigners.  Americans hate foreigners because Americans are foreigners.  We all come from foreign lands, even if we came ten thousand years ago on a land bridg across the Bering Straight.  We didn't want anything to do with those Ice Age Siberians, them with cave-bear-pelt underwear and mamoth meat on their breath.  We were off to the Pacific North West---great salmon fishing, blowout potluck dinners, a whole new life.
America is not "globaly conscious" or "multicultural."  Americans didn't come to America to be Limey Poofters, Frog-Eaters, Bucket Heads, Micks, Spicks, Sheenies, or Wogs.  If we wanted foreign entanglements, we would have stayed home.  Or---in the case of those of us who were shipped to America against our will, as slaves, exiles, or transported prisoners---we would have gone back.  Events in Liberia and the type of American who lives in Paris tell us what to think of that.
Being foreigners ourselves, we Americans know what foreigners are up to with their foreign policy---thier venomous convents, lying alliances, greedy agreements, and trick-or-treaties.  America is not a wily, sneaky, nation.  We don't think that way.  We don't think much at all, thank God.  Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.  A fundemental American question is "What's the big idea?" -- P. J. O'Rourke, Former National Lampoon Contributing/Managing/Alumni Editor; Peace Kills: Americas New Imperialism; Pg.5 -- Ch. 1 "Why Americans Hate Foreign Policy."