The US government in no way has a consistent policy. It's a $4 trillion beast, filled with millions of actors, and countless departments all running their show

The US government in no way has a consistent policy. It's a $4 trillion beast, filled with millions of actors, and countless departments all running their show the way they see it. More often than not, one hand is not talking to the other. They constantly leave each other out of the loop. One department wants freedom in the middle east, the other prefers secular military dictatorships under the guise of stability. And so on and so forth. One of the biggest myths about the US Govt. is that it acts with any form of cohesion internally. In reality, you might as well look at it more like a hundred micro states, all with budgets the size of a nation like Bulgaria (eg - $20 billion).