Since 1945 America has based its foreign policy on NOT being able to see that the rest of the world...and Achmed the Shepherd does not necessarily want to become like Americans.They always have been an enemy of rational logical thought.
As a nation that is. Sure there are plenty of intelligent minds in the likes of nasa and those creating great comedy - but as a nation they're drowned out by the klaxon like honking of the unjustifiably over confident dim witted majority.
It's (US foreign policy) not got any better with Trumps, shall we say, unique take on diplomacy.