[Colonel Kangaroo]

America has always been more than an idea, an ideology or a propositional nation. It is a country that belongs to a separate and identifiable people with its own history, heroes, holidays, symbols, songs, myths, mores — its own culture.

The difference of opinion on this gives rise to two strongly opposed foreign policy instincts. If American is a nation of a people, the foreign policy goals of the nation should be protection of the nation, conserving its strength and minding its own business. On the other hand, if America is a nation of ideas our policy should be to meddle, intervene and spread American ideas across a doubting globe by force of arms or money.

[miserare]

Ah, yes...the old conundrum...nationalism or internationalism (now called diversity or globalism.) I have lived long enough to see our country thrive under nationalism, and decline over globalism. Thank God, our President is returning the Nation to its former glory, after twenty-some years held in thrall to the globalists... Bushes, Clintons, Obamas. MAGA!

[itsahoot]

The difference of opinion on this gives rise to two strongly opposed foreign policy instincts.

Neither of which are correct.