There is an appropriate reassessment of the role the United States should have in world affairs. Recent intrusions into the internal affairs of foreign countries have been disastrous. Foreigners will take our money and offer to fight their local enemies but in the end bitterly resent American efforts that “teach them how to live” or order their culture. They view it as the worst form of cultural imperialism. The United States is resented and American security is lessened. Ronald Reagan had an image of America being this moral, just, prosperous city on the hill for others to admire and mimic. That may be the way to go. Let others mimic us, but never have America intrude or impose. Foreign entanglements should only be initiated if and only if the actual security or real interests of the United States are at stake. Of course liberals and socialists will argue that the world is “one” and international intrusions and a diminution of American nationalism is a good and necessary thing. Yet one only has to reflect on the spectacle of that jet lagged gasbag narcissist Kerry pontificating around the globe, accomplishing nothing and making new enemies daily.
No kidding, A little Reaganesque restraint would go a long way.
Afghanistan? Iraq? So what should have been our response to 9/11 or the takeover of Kuwait by Iraq or the bombing of our embassies in East Africa or the attack on the USS Cole? How do we deal with Iran, the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism and on the verge of becoming a nuclear power? How do we respond to China's expanding military and economic power? Or the rise of militant Islamic fundamentalism?
Specifically, what foreign intrusions are you talking about?