Do you think France or Russia or China or Brasil give two shits what the "rest of the world" thinks of them? Why do the media and the mush-heads have this inate pussy desire to be "liked" by everyone? World politics is not a high-school popularity contest.
Because they offer a different "Perspective". Thats why. Sometimes a person/country(USA) is convinced they are always in the right, because they are not in a position to see how they are acting. The Rest of the World offer, to some degree, a more objective viewpoint, because they are not involved. Thats why it's important.
People don't know when they have bad breath,
People don't know that they talk too much & never shut up,
People don't realize when they are acting negative
People don't know that they have bad tempers
Many times another person has to tell them. It works the same with countries.
The USA is always convinced that they are always right, and the rest of the World are Psychos.
Well, we are not always right, and we finally need to see this. We don't need another Old- "Set in his ways" tough guy, who wraps himself in the Flag, and is more inclined to drop bombs on people, than to talk to people. OBAMA will crush Mccain in 2008