I think it is pure ignorance to pretend the United States does not belong to the planet Earth, and to the world community. Your back yard, your town, and your state is not the way the world is . People live all over the world, have different values, different morals and different color skin.
Having more countries respect us can't be a bad thing. We all drive Japanese cars, 50 years ago were frying Japan with atomic bombs. Now we are friendly with them and all of us love cruising our cool VX's. That would have never happened if we did not heal old wounds like Pearl Harbor and move on to trade with them.
Obama did not deserve the peace prize, the American people do for electing him. The world was happy not only happy to see a black man finally pierce the good old boy's club,but one that was not part of the same republican policy mill as Bush.
The United States is #1, "we do what we want" attitude was what got us in the wars we have been in. We are like a Mansion in the middle of a ghetto. Somebody was bound to throw a rock through our window. We consume more than we produce. We spend more than we have. We bitch more than we should.