Um....Where is there a mention of "nuking" an unarmed civilian town? If you want to criticize the post, fine, but don't conjure up stuff that isn't in the post.
Jennings said Americans are insular. We are. I don't necessarily consider that a bad thing, but it's true.
SOME Americans are insular but your across the board claim (and Jennings') has painted this whole society with a wide brush. Fact of the matter is from personal experience I find that many Americans know a lot more about European history than Europeans do. Case in point: Shakespeare is studied more vigorously in the USA than in Britain. The replica of the Old Globe Theater was built primarily with American support.
Nationalism and Patriotism really are not the same thing.
By nationalism, if you mean it to be a desire to conquer or control other countries, I think you will find it almost non-existent here.
Global leadership really is something beyond selling our sh!t abroad.
And what are we trying to sell to the Afghans????
In other words, I don't understand what you're b!tching about.
Could we start with Peter Jennings' total ignorance of political realities in the USA such as his mischaracterization of Boulder, CO as some sort of Republican bastion?
Now that is funny, now that you mention it.
The 'nuke' bit has to do with your mention of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.