Foreign Policy

There are two major forms of foreign policy taken to American expansion abroad: "economic penetration by multinational corporations into Europe and the  developing world, and political and military influence exercised by the American government" (p.246).  Through the American timeline, foreign policy has been growing and growing to create and American superiority.  "The goal of American policymakers for well over half a century has been to maintain U.S. global superiority" (p. 259).  There is some major problems with keeping this thought process. One is that many nations do not like the fact that the United States has held such a strong hand in military and economic welfare such as imports and exports, controlling a major amount of the worlds supply.  This led to a major mistake by a power hungry President, this mistake is known as Unilateralism. "The president [Bush] also decided that the United States would reject a UN treaty banning land mines, despite its upport by most nations of the world.  Another example of unilateralizm was the Bush administration's decision to reject the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, a tribunal created to try cases involving genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity" (p.260) By rejecting these courts, Bush put the American people in a horrible position of losing popularity.  It made us seem like a godly country instead of taking aid from the nations we considered to be allies.  Now the Allies are not very happy with our actions especially with the facts of us posting camp in Iraq's backyard.  American's are now more despised more than ever in mostly every country. William G. Hyland, the deputy national security adviser to President Gerald Ford states: “Protectionism is the ally of isolationism, and isolationism is the Dracula of American foreign policy.” The following statement is only a mere metaphor of Foreign policy but I felt it fit because America has isolated itself, which to me is a very big mistake.
My question: what was Bush trying to make a point of by throwing the American people into isolation instead of at least establishing a hand of help with allies? We are not a godly country, that is not why we fought the revolutionary war or the civil war. We wanted to create our own state of freedom and we did, getting help from Allies is not a contradiction to what this country is about. Actually denying the help is more disasterous than accepting.