It won't work looking at it from that perspective.
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say that ...
The business of America should be to remain King of the Hill by keeping friends around the globe. We are more than a giant Walmart. We represent the oldest and most long standing democracy in history and we have always fought for individual freedom and rights. People around the world look to us as a role model and a place of sanctuary. Or at least they used to.
Not when those "friends" are screwing us.
We all have our rights here in the US. If people in other countries don't to damned bad.
I have nothing against European countries in NATO paying their way. I am really worried about all the cutting of foreign aid, though, to countries that need assistance. The reality is that if WE don't help them, an adversary will. Then those countries will be obliged to our adversary.
It's not a sound decision.