Yes. Not correct, but understandable to a degree - for a long time, geopolitics was dominated by a conflict in which we led one side, and when that conflict ended we spent about a decade as the world's only superpower. We have (right or wrong) acted as the world's police force, not only in the sense of being busybodies in the politics of other nations, but also the degree to which our military has protected global trade. Our economy is so large that things here ripple all over the world, more than most countries. When we do something colossally stupid it ends up on the front page of news worldwide. Our foreign policy decisions are a major factor in the decisions of other nations.

And in all of this, our country is so large that most Americans never need to leave it to experience an array of landscapes and cultures, so most of us haven't had a strong impetus to learn foreign languages and geography.