Fear...fear and hate. They want foreigners to fear them and they want Americans to fear the unknown, I.e every other country. Americans hunt and kill a lot but in reality, I have never seen people so scared of every thing. Anything bad that happens in the US, people stick on it forever. Most of the people I know are on medication of some kind here, just to cope with their fears created by the media.
Further, if they were to like foreign countries, the citizens might see that the U.S. isn't really the best at anything except blowing shit up. Overall the U.S. ranks well in every way which is amazing, but many smaller nations are much nicer places to live, but are tiny and can't blow shit up. It's a case of Sticking to what your best at? So they make their citizens think everywhere else is the 3rd world, (most only vacation to Mexico), and this makes them feel lucky to have what they have. The U.S. though, overall is a nice place with nice people. It isn't any different than adding 50 switzerlands, nor ways or Ireland's together and having them United. They would behave the same.
