OK, DK and FourPar, which of the following countries would you refuse to even talk to if it was your choice? Each has something, can change something or is strategically important to the U.S.. Yet each of them seems to violate the standards which you set down for a country to even qualify for us to consider conducting diplomacy with....

China
Saudi Arabia
Russia
North Korea
Iran
Kuwait
Pakistan
Palestine
Cambodia
Algeria
Venezuela
Bolivia
Indonesia
Syria
Egypt
Lebanon
Vietnam
Thailand
Nigeria
Columbia
Mexico
Libya
Turkey
Kazakstan
Uzbekistan
Kyrgystan

And by the way, as far as breaking treaties is concerned, here's a list of treaties that were negotiated, many by the UN with U.S. approval as a member of the Security Council, and then either signed and broken or not ratified by the U.S. Maybe we're not as squeaky clean as diplomatic partners as we think we are. It's altogether possible that the rest of the world has the same suspiscions about our reliability as a diplomatic partner as you descibe other major countries..."Agreements and treaties mean nothing to them and they will break them in a heartbeat at their convenience." Here's the list of treaties negotiated just since 2000 which the U.S has either broken or refuses to ratify...

1. Ottawa Treaty (the land-mine ban)
2. Treaty on the Rights of the Child (only holdouts are the U.S. and Somalia)
3. Protocol to enforce the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (vote was 178-1, the US the only holdout)
4. United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
5. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
6. Convention on Biological Diversity
7. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
8. Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
9. International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings
10. International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.
11. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
12. Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes Against Humanity
13. Forced Labor Convention
14. Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention
15. Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention
16. Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age to Marriage and Registration of Marriages
17. Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
18. Convention on the International Right of Correction
19. International Criminal Court
20. Kyoto Accords (greenhouse gas reductions)
21. UN Convention on Biological Diversity (regulating genetic engineering)
22. UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
23. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty [prohibiting programs like "Stars Wars"]
24. Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
25. Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
26. International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries
27. International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
28. Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment
29. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
30. Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers (prohibiting sale of arms to human rights violators & aggressors)
31. Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
32. Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, and Other Related Materials
33. UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (bans toxic waste dumping, etc.)
34. UN Moon Treaty [declaring the moon part of the Common Heritage of Mankind]
35. Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
36. UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
37. Protocol to enforce the Convention Against Torture
38. United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime