Americans sell people in other nations goods and buy goods in return.
He placed a tiny ad in The Nation: "Good morning cabal.
Chairman of the FA Greg Dyke might think we're for it - as he was caught on camera making a cut-throat gesture - but a nation good at football (like, say, Uruguay) could be fairly confident of progress.
"You've got the older generation, those old Oxford professor types, who feel that the young are decadent and soft and not like us, and that war does the nation good and is healthy bloodletting," she says.
M: Manners may differ from nation to nation, good conduct is universal Good table manners are part of business and social gatherings.
Conservative family values are strict and apply via metaphorical thought to the nation: good vs. evil, authority, the use of force, toughness and discipline, individual (versus social) responsibility, and tough love.
In today's day and age of email trysts, online insta-shopping, and lunchtime eyelid lifts, maybe a little dose of old fashioned class and education would do a nation good.
The 27-country European Union provides a single market for its member-nations' goods and allows the unfettered transit of citizens across national borders, among other shared benefits.
Again, there are bad nations and good nations out there.
He also called on "all nations of good will" to come to the aid of Iraq, observing that "every young democracy needs the help of friends".
