Why "Country First" is a dangerous slogan

I'm not so sure that the McCain campaign's embrace of the "Country First" slogan is harmless.  I agree with Rick that few Americans will actually put "country" above family, faith, or friends in their day-to-day prioritizing, but I think slogans like these encourage our tendency to put "American" interests over human interests.  "Country First" could have been the chant when President Bush justified the Iraq war by proclaiming, "I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein."  (Instead, we opted for the certain destruction of thousands of Iraqi lives caused by a full-scale invasion.)  Or when Bush explained that we should not join the International Criminal Court because we should not "join a foreign court" where "our people could be prosecuted."  Or when Mitt Romney said that we should double the size of Guantanamo because we don't want detainees to have access to lawyers like they would have on our soil.  More broadly, "Country First" can easily give rise to an American exceptionalism grounded in triumphalism, rather than humility, and to the belittlement of global concerns.  (In the interests of bipartisanship, I'll note that President Bush's initiatives in Africa buck this trend, and the Democrats' economic rhetoric on globalization exacerbates this trend.)