can't have it both ways...controlling the resources of poor countries or sending monies to allies without regulations..and not be part of the world...with cc's love of China and free market economies how could you not be citizen of a bigger picture.. my personal belief..not that it matters much ..is if a child dies in Africa we all should mourn the loss. We talk so much about individualism, but we are connected to a larger misssion and as Milton so appropriately put it "no man is an island"...or should I say no person is an island...some of us learned in rehabilitation that it is not independence that should be the goal of life...but intradependence..unless you like that island concept