One of the great conflicts in American foreign policy is between the short-term tendency of Americans to brush off foreign threats, and the knee-jerk response to foreign threats, which is to take crushing action. That leads to wild vacillation in American foreign policy on the right. On the left, however, there’s a solid consistency: America is a nefarious force in the world and should be stopped from her colonial, imperialistic aspirations. The Left is driven by isolationist foreign policy not out of the belief that isolationism makes America stronger, but out of the belief that isolationism protects the rest of the world. That’s nonsense. It has led the Left to pander to America’s enemies and ignore her friends, all the while weakening her defensive capabilities.
Myth 1: Slashing our military doesn’t cost American lives.
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