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We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America.

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.