In this day and age of pragmatic, short-range, agreements for agreement’s sake with communist (Cuba) and theocratic (Iran) dictatorships, and of the United States sacrificially financing both the defense of half a welfare statist continent that mostly despises us (Europe) and parts of a backward corner of the earth that by and large hates us (Middle East), it may be of value to ponder what foreign relations would look like if solely based on the