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Article: The United States in the world arena: two opposing views.(Viewpoint essay)
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- Modern Age
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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IN THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY I want to pose this question to the readers of Modern Age: What is the proper role of the United States in world affairs? My answer is that it must be what it has always been: To serve liberty and justice as best we can while defending our security and national interests. None of these terms is susceptible of tidy definition, of course.
Foreign policy. The avoidance of entangling alliances, despite abiding appeal to isolationists, xenophobes, and pacifists, did not take us very far. It was effectively repudiated with the Louisiana Purchase which paved the way for Manifest Destiny. After the lessons taught by the War of ...