Well, that's my point! That we should not alter our policy to try to avoid hatred nor to incur gratitude. Because we have very little control over how people react to our actions. We have all seen it before: someone we help turns on us, someone we've never bothered hates us anyway... all I'm saying is that other people's emotions shouldn't have squat to do with our foreign policy, I want neither isolationism nor philanthropy. I want us to act in our own self-interest, period.