Thursday, March 3, 2011

US Loses Appetite for Job as the World’s Policeman

Financial Times.com reviews SECDEF's speech at West Point from the perspective that it "crystallised the arrival of a new era in US foreign policy." The author characterizes the shift, "from robust interventionism towards relative isolationism" as a product of both economic necessity and political reality. "The US is not just less able to be the world’s policeman. The country and its people have, for the moment, lost all appetite for the job as well."

Read the article here.

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