America's Default Foreign Policy
Mini Teaser: Humanitarian interventions have become the reflex position in Washington. But the American public is more nationalistic and more skeptical of foreign do-goodery. Could a reckoning be at hand?
Robert W. Merry, author of several books on American history and foreign policy, is the outgoing editor of The National Interest.
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Pullquote: Why is today’s foreign-policy discourse so bereft of any serious intellectual counterforce to the prevailing humanitarian ethos?Essay Types: The Realist