Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Whacky U.S. Foreign Policy

 The United States has by far the greatest military dominance in world history--both absolutely and relative to other great powers at its time in history--to back up its foreign policy. Such a potent, offensively oriented force is hardly needed for the defense of what the nation's founders realized was perhaps the most intrinsically secure great power in world history, because of its remoteness from the centers of world conflict. Instead, what is really needed is simply more common sense in dealing with other countries. The U.S. government, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, has operated a foreign policy that is akin to the stereotype of a musclebound bodybuilder with very little upstairs.
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