“To the CFR, America’s role in the world is to corral Russia, defend Europe, contain China, isolate Iran, deter North Korea, and battle al-Qaida and ISIS wherever they may be, bleeding our country’s military.”
If we undertook these things with a view to winning/achieving success in the shortest time possible, that would be one thing. But our politicians don’t do what is necessary to win/succeed quickly. They bumble along incompetently and conduct war with half measures.
Another issue is that while Western Europe and those of Western European decent in the United States have a birthrate that puts our population in decline. The cultures that are pitted against us have a birthrate that causes their population to double every 30 years or so. What could go wrong? That issue alone means that we either build one hell of a wall and defensive system or we will be eventually overrun. It is simple demographics. Western culture is in rapid decline from a historical perspective even when compared with the plagues of the middle ages. Us old farts probably will not be around to see it all fall to pieces, but if our grandkids survive the onslaught, they are going to have one heck of a mess to clean up.