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It's the wrong idea, not because we don't need to put morality back into our foreign policy, but rather because the whole shebang needs reworking in order to keep Americans safe and lead the free world.

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But I do agree with Gaddis that, just as in the Cold War, American leadership in world affairs needs to be accepted as legitimate and responsible for it to work.

Although I would prefer that America resume (or assume) its position as leader of the free world I think that our foreign policy should be focused on what the right and moral thing to do is and what's in our national interests (fairly narrowly understood). In my book every recent president has failed in one or the other of those areas. I didn't think much of Clinton getting involved in Kosovo. It was clearly a civil war. It was not an intervention to prevent a genocide. Whichever side we aided was going to pound on the other side. Either way there'd be “ethnic cleaning”. And we had no dog in that hunt. It might have been in America's broad national interests. But Europe could and should have handled it on their own. We can't and shouldn't carry their water forever. I also didn't think much of Bush 41's handling of the Gulf War. I just don't like the calculation that leads to leaving Saddam in power and abandoning the Marsh Arabs and the Kurds to his tender mercies. But that's the price of a coalition. And, of course, the failing of Bush 43 go without saying.