The best policy can be summed up in a few words: Let’s mind our own business. From Christopher Roach at amgreatness.com:
If we want our country to be safe and powerful, we should start on the firm foundations of respect for peace, human life, and other nations’ sovereignty.
During Bush’s years as president, Democrats frequently criticized his foreign policy, complaining that he acted like a cowboy, pursuing wars unilaterally without the imprimatur of the “international community.” Internationalism was a particular obsession of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, who lambasted the Bush administration for snubbing the United Nations and upsetting France with its Iraq policy.
Obama was mostly a darling of foreign leaders, as he ceded American power and prestige in a bid to right what he considered the historic wrongs of colonialism and western chauvinism. This was evident in his obsession with completing the Iran deal, participating in the Kyoto accords, assisting NATO attacks on Libya and Syria, and in the general tone of public diplomacy during the Arab Spring.
That said, America made quite a few interventions in the Obama years, especially in the second term, and we largely called the shots.
A Fake “International Community”
For all the talk of the international community, it was mostly a fig leaf for American unilateralism no matter which party was in charge. This practice extended from the Clinton presidency through Obama’s. When the United Nations would not approve something, we went to NATO. And when NATO wouldn’t get involved, we acted unilaterally, as in the early attacks on Syria or the targeted killing policy employed against al Qaeda.
All the way back to the fweedom fwies time and how dare anyone offend Fwance.
It has been building for years this Fundamental Transformation into a fake and GAE third rate CCCP redux.
Bust out the V for Vendetta movie sets with empty rifles and make the New Civility mandatory.
No shirking against the hive or the CBDC bucks go up in digital smoke, no vaccination, no occupation, we’re all in this together comrade.
Breaking from Big Willie Hutch:
You Gotta Give Love Up