Regarding the disrespect shown the United States and its citizens: the only reason our country permits the sundry assaults on our people and attacks on our culture and land is the good will of the United States and the vastness of its patience. Were we not to exist, nuclear weapons would certainly have been employed by other countries in asymmetrical warfare, decimating the populations and wiping entire peoples off the earth. If you swapped the US with a country like pakistan, you can be sure we would have been nuked long ago.
So my question is: how many third world shitholes would we have to glass before they start policing themselves? How many populations would cease to exist, how many times would a mushroom cloud have to rise before the universal sentiment becomes "fuck with us, and your nation gets wiped off the face of the earth?"