I know lots of rank and file Republicans. These maroons have no idea what goes in other countries, where they are, how they relate to each other, how many there are, or how we are perceived there. Yet they believe we are far superior to all of these foreign weirdos, and their socialist ideas. They used to think our cars were superior, but the evidence of their own eyes has finally penetrated their thick skulls after 30 years of experience with Toyota and the like. The exceptions are some fringe Paulists who have adopted a paradoxically far left view of US foreign policy as a never-ending series of crimes and errors that we should end at once for the sake of our souls, especially when it involves us with nefarious characters like the Israelis. Like their jingoistic brethren though, the Paulist kooks are entirely innocent of real insight or experience overseas.