This seems like looking at the symptoms and making up "just so" stories to explain disease. American foreign affairs have always largely been driven by the desi

This seems like looking at the symptoms and making up "just so" stories to explain disease. American foreign affairs have always largely been driven by the desires of monied oligarchs. Smedley Butler, highly decorated Marine general wrote about that a century ago. If anything has changed, I would think it has been the shorter-term thinking around business goals. "What have you done for me this quarter?" is not a philosophy of long-term stability. Couple that with our constant flip-flopping of political party and those parties' inability to maintain the previous administration's policies because that gets in the way of their own short-term goals and . . . here we are.