Obama Doubles-Down on "Light Footprint" Foreign Policy

[J.K. Gregg]

Ok, anyway, humanitarian military escapades generally don't serve the interest of the United States.

[exploited]

[Indy]

[The Dharma Bum]

meh

[Indy]

Well, that was a purely humanitarian mission and we didn't lose anybody and it didn't bankrupt us.

However, one could argue that we went in there to stop the slaughter of Muslims and clearly that didn't matter to AQ who still 9/11'd us.

So I guess it's a wash.

[J.K. Gregg]

So we spend taxpayer dollars and risk the lives of Americans for PR purposes?

[The Comrade]

[The Comrade]

[exploited]

What foreign policy act could I bring up that wouldn't be a strawman? Would you like to discuss the relative merits of your ideal of foreign policy vs. mine, in regards to, say, Iraq or Afghanistan, and how our respective ideals would inform the decision-making process? Or is that also a strawman?

I believe that a nation's foreign policy should deal almost exclusively with securing the physical well-being of it's citizens. This is a sufficiently broad standard to allow for most necessary interventions, while it is sufficiently strict to limit the do-gooders from wasting soldier's lives for crusades that are both short-sighted and ultimately ineffective.

Please, go on. You don't humiliate yourself all that often. It's refreshing to see every now and again.

[Kane]