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daniel January 13, 2018 American interventionism, Is America Doomed to an Aggressive Foreign Policy?, nobody seems to know how many wars America is fighting, noninterventionism is rapidly becoming a bad joke, permanent low-level warfare, The Cold War and the Hot 21st Century, The peace movement seems to be dead, the US has become far more warlike in the supposedly peaceful 21st Century than it was during the Cold War, U.S. voters have elected four presidents in a row that promised a noninterventionist foreign policy., Uncle Sam the Reluctant Imperialist, Voters don’t want Interventionism yet it is America’s Foreign Policy, Why can’t Modern Wars End?

Is America Doomed to an Aggressive Foreign Policy?

All this means that the current state of permanent low-level war is likely to continue for at least another decade or longer. It also means that the next President will run on the same non-interventionist pledges as the last four and promptly break them.
War it seems has become the new normal. Perhaps we should welcome it, Britain’s massive colonial deployment in the 19th Century only ended in the buildup to World War I.