In essence, the US today has four main strategic aims: (1) to prevent the emergence of a peer or near-peer competitor by denying all such potential rivals the resources and allies that they would need; (2) to protect and promote the alliances and international institutions that underpin the rules-based international order that we established after WW II and relied on to help win the Cold War; (3) to assure the security of the US homeland and of US access to the world's resources; and (4) to oppose and suppress terrorism, especially Islamic terrorism.
None of these goals are unreasonable or ill-chosen even if, in application, the US may sometimes go astray. The US continues to enjoy a combination of military, economic, political, and cultural power that the world envies but mostly accepts because it broadly benefits from US policies and conduct. The world's complaints about US leadership are negligible against their fears of a lack of US leadership. Moreover, US foreign policy and national strategy benefit from our robust political institutions, remarkable history, and the options offered by different schools of thought about foreign relations. Working together, these help provide a check against excess and error.
The primary opposition to the US in the world -- the so-called revisionist powers (China and Russia) and rogue states (Iran, North Korea) -- are subject to containment strategies, national weaknesses, and inherent strategic constraints. The Twentieth Century has been called "The American Century." And, with most of the world fully accepting of American leadership, the current century is likely to be even more defined by American ways and decisions.
Well said. Pat’s commitment to isolationism blinds him to anything that doesn’t support his theory that often turns in to “it’s America’s fault.” Arab soil may be sacred to him, but it’s also the soil that spawns hate regardless of the USA or Israel, points I am positive he’d rejected. He’s really the last of the great appeasers.
I don’t accept this. The housekeeping tasks of empire.
The only reason America didn’t have an anti-war movement in World War 2, was because Hitler invaded the Democrat Holy Land of Russia. The Left was not about to go marching in the streets, when their hero Stalin was in mortal danger.
The US Government is now controlled(bought and paid for) by the globalist-corprate cabal. Their goal is to keep the one sided unsustainable international rape trade status quo going as long as possible. This way corporations maximize profits and Americas enemies grow stronger industrially. The deep state is doing its part by watering down the middle class political power by importing as many 3rd worlders as possible, all the while instigating a anti white race war-cultural shift through the leftist MSM. Win-win, for them.