Offsite Post: ‘The Moral Failures of American Foreign Policy’

 

The recent large-scale agreement between China and Iran has raised some eyebrows in the world.  Some in the States look upon this with alarm.  Mr Sal Perricone seems to speak for them:

 

There is no logical, peaceful reason China wouid sign a pact with Iran. The countries are not contiguous. The countries have no common waterways. The countries have no common interest, other than hatred for the United States.

Perhaps he is right that hatred of the States is the only thing binding these two nations together (or maybe it is a little more nuanced than that).  But however that may be, we will do ourselves a great disservice if we focus solely on the internal motivations of other countries while overlooking the actions of American leaders around the world.

What if other countries are justified in feeling threatened by the United States?  Pat Buchanan, hardly an anti-American Antifa agitator, writes,

 

Consider. Between 1989 and 1991, the Soviet Empire collapsed and disintegrated. The Berlin Wall came down. All the Red Army divisions went home from Europe. Communism ceased to be the ideology of the Soviet Union, which itself split apart into 15 separate nations.

 

Russia was no longer the largest captive nation of communism but a nation reaching out in friendship to the United States.

 

And what did we do in response?

 

We doubled the number of nations in NATO we are sworn to defend, moved the alliance deep into Eastern Europe and adopted a policy of containment of a shrunken Russia.

 

Having won the Cold War, and unable to find a new mission, we started a second Cold War to contain the new Russia — this time at the borders of Belarus, Ukraine and Georgia, as we had once contained the old USSR at the River Elbe.

Does this sort of behavior engender trust in Washington, D. C.?

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2021/03/garlington-the-moral-failures-of-american-foreign-policy/ .

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