The Case Against an Isolationist Foreign Policy
The United States is in a period when isolationism is on the ascent. A decade plus of continuous warfare has drained the American people's will and sucked funds which could be used to address other pressing domestic issues. With little tangible results from our interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans have become jaded and are driving the political narrative for a more isolationist foreign policy. I see this as a political foreign policy failure, or more accurately the lack of a transparent and strategic foreign policy. Historically, the United States has primarily had an isolationist foreign policy with limited foreign intervention. After World War II, the United States became the leading power to combat Soviet interventionism with a robust international presence. Inevitably, we became the indispensable policeman to the world. Unfortunately, military power has been (and still is) the driving force in U.S. international diplomacy. We now see U.S. military power being con