Isn't it funny?

One of the common criticisms leveled at George W. Bush is that he is too much of a "unilateralist." The prima facie evidence of this odious crime provided is usually the war in Iraq. Over and over we are told how the President doesn't work with the "world community" and rejects the sum-is-greater-than-the-collective-parts wisdom of the gathered globe. Over and over we are warned by those on the Left how the President's "go-it-alone" approach to diplomacy is uninformed, ignorant, and dangerous. After all, doesn't he understand that the world is a connected place? Hasn't he ever just wanted to give the world a coke and smile??
Underlying this charge is the assumption that the world is such a connected place that a movement out-of-hand by one member has drastic implications for the other members. Or, to put it another way, that the world has common interests, common goals and are bound by common constraints, moral and otherwise, that preclude acting solely in one's own interest.
So what to make of the same people who inconsistently and incoherently maintain that the war on terror is localized ONLY to the person of Osama Bin Laden and to the single locale of Afghanistan? Any suggestion that in the same interrelated way of the U.N., terrorists, specifically Islamic terrorists, and "rogue states" opposed to the West, might have common cause in their hatred towards the U.S., and might actually collude together to do us harm is immediately scorned and derided. You're laughed at as naive and unstable. What fellowship hath Baghdad and Kabul?
The truth of it is, those who say such things are themselves deluded. They are guilty of two egregious errors spring from their flawed worldview and its resulting anthropology: they overestimate the good will in the world among men when they tout the "world community" as a place of inherent love and brotherhood, and they underestimate the evil in the world by isolating acts of evil to one or two "oppressed" characters. Both failings stem from a lack of understanding that Man, although made in the image of God, is nonetheless a sinner at heart whose tendencies, apart from the intervening Grace of God, are always toward sin. Thank God George Bush, a confessed Bible-believer, unilaterally trusts the Word of God over "We are the World."