Foreign interventions always end badly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.
Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.
We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.
Certain struggles never end.
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.