Two of America's foremost political veterans, who have served at the White House, warned Thursday the world is shrinking and nations that once were on the outside looking in are now seeking their own special relationship with the United States. Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser to two U.S. presidents, and Howard Baker, Tennessee's favorite-son U.S. senator and President Ronald Reagan's chief of staff, said it is not in America's best interests today to become too sentimental about past special relationships. The country shouldn't turn its back on friends, they said. Scowcroft and Baker, a former U.S. ambassador to Japan,...