A Foreign Policy for America's Golden Age

A Foreign Policy for America's Golden Age

America's new foreign policy for the coming era must be rooted in prudence, guided by justice, and oriented to peace.

A Foreign Policy for America’s Golden Age

For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than Detroit, or Baghdad than Bozeman. It was a bipartisan delusion—driven by ideology, divorced from consequence, and devastating to the American people. Against the wisdom of the ancients and our own founders, we went abroad “in search of monsters to destroy.” But our foreign exploits proved fruitless, producing little but falle…