Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
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Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.
The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.
Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.