I can't say I disagree with anything you've said there. I believe a lot of foreign policy also consists of trying to salvage or redirect the previous administra

I can't say I disagree with anything you've said there. I believe a lot of foreign policy also consists of trying to salvage or redirect the previous administrations' policies no matter how disastrous they've proven thus far, purely for the sake of saving face and refusing to admit them as mistakes (although Iraq is now certainly accepted as a mistake by most people). I believe the bigger problem is the insistence on projecting US power overseas no matter the cost or consequences. It's like there's some underlying belief that if you don't use it you lose it (which might be true in itself I don't really know)