President
Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are the latest to
express concern that the American appetite for managing foreign
conflicts is waning. In his West Point speech Wednesday, Obama said
the military is the “backbone” of American leadership, even as he
claimed that force is not the first answer to every problem. And
Hagel recently told some foreign-policy wonks in Chicago that it
would be “a mistake to view our global responsibilities as a burden
or charity.” But, Sheldon Richman notes, America’s interventionist
attitude has our put our country in more danger than any sort of
claims of “isolationism.”
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