You're quite right, Amos, as to what should be the guiding priniciples of American foreign policy, but what is actually happening is the direct opposite of that.

In a truly sane world all nations would have agreed by now to disarm their weapons of mass destruction and stand down their armies. All nations would have agreed by now to peaceful coexistence. All nations would have agreed by now to enshrine basic civil freedoms and to pay their workers similar real wages for the same type of work regardless of which country they happened to live in. All nations would have allowed their people freedom to travel abroad wherever they wish to (which wouldn't be a problem if economic conditions and civil rights were equalized around the world).

We are not living in an enlightened society, we are living in a horribly divided feudal society with gross inequality and an unholy reliance upon violence and graft. Our present societies only appear relatively "advanced" because they are technologically quite sophisticated, but as a planetary community we are still in what I would term "the Dark Ages" of human development.