During a visit to the UN in Geneva a few days ago, I had lunch with a few "American officials". One of the subject was of course the topic of this thread. A certain arrogance was felt as these gentlemen were not fearing a possible loss for the tourism industry. They called the revenues from foreign visitors as "negligible". The attitude was clearly: we don't need foreign tourists and no foreigners whatsoever would even be better.

I did not want to start an argument but if this really reflects the mood in the US, I am really worried and appehensive of returning to the US. Has Mc Carthy been resurrected? Are we going to become North Corea Number 2?