This makes some amount of sense under a model of the US government as a collection of usually-feuding groups that have different constituencies and control diff

This makes some amount of sense under a model of the US government as a collection of usually-feuding groups that have different constituencies and control different levers of power, often exporting their internal conflicts overseas. http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/secret-of-anti-americanism.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/secret-... (The phrases to look at are "red empire" and "blue empire").