It Is Time For America To Rethink It's Interventionist Foreign Policy
By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA The United States of America must remain strong. Our defenses should be second to none in the world and we must stand prepared to engage in military actions in defense of our freedom and liberties "against all threats both foreign and domestic." The operative words being... in defense of our freedom and liberties. The United States, which began it's interventionist foreign policy in earnest during the early twentieth century, has never looked back. I shall exclude World War Two from this discussion because I personally believe the fight to liberate Europe from a despotic dictator was justified. Both on an ethical basis as well as it was in our national self interest to stop Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan before we had to fight them on our shores. I shall also exclude the Cuban Missile Crisis as the decisions made by President Kennedy at the time were essentially in our national security interest and in k...