What would you say is the theme of American foreign policy

[pscot]

Does American foreign policy have a theme? Does America have a foreign policy? Why does John Kerry look so harried whenever I see him on tv.

[liberal_at_heart]

1. political interest; imports and exports, oil mainly but there are others.

If we didn't have a natural gas boom going on we would be told Russia is the threat.

[tech3149]

2. If there is a theme it is whatever we say is law and "our" interests are supreme

I see that after WW2 at least, and especially after the fall of the Soviet Union, our nation has shown itself to be arrogant and without respect for the other people of the planet unless there was a dollar to be made by giving someone else the illusion of getting a fair deal.

[hughee99]

3. The enrichment of the military/industrial complex.

That's the overriding theme for more than 100 years.

[BlindTiresias]

4. Empire

Empire based on the Polybian republic at the governmental level and multi-national corporations and financial entities at the economic level.

[Barack_America]

5. Exploitation.

Which, conveniently, is also the theme of American domestic policy.

[msongs]

6. the theme? govern as if cheney was still president nt

[a la izquierda]

7. Protection of our interests...

Whatever they may be, whatever the costs.

[bemildred]

8. Political butt-covering. nt

[randome]

9. Why does there need to be a theme? Take a look around and see how messy the world is.

Where is the 'theme' in what ISIS is doing? They talk about establishing an Islamic Republic then deliberately ditch all that is good about Islam. Is that a theme?
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[morningfog]

10. Bomb it and threaten to bomb it.

[CJCRANE]

11. Freedom is messy

and we're going to keep spreading it.

[HereSince1628]

12. We have "a very large stick".

Seems to be a common recurring feature of much of it.

That stick is so important to American policy in general, that we'd starve people, let them drink filth and toxins while cheating them of education and healthcare in order to keep swinging it.

[reddread]

13. PNAC

[Cal Carpenter]

14. Capitalism n/t

[pscot]

15. Manifest Destiny

with global ambitions.