The true flag by stephen kinzer5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Americans are imperialists and also isolationists. When we love the idea of intervening abroad and then hate it, we are not changing our minds. ![]() ![]() Then, chastened, we retreat-until the cycle begins again.Īmerica’s interventionist urge, however, is not truly cyclical. Confident in our power, we launch wars and depose governments. At some moments we are aflame with righteous anger. Our enthusiasm for foreign intervention seems to ebb and flow like the tides, or swing back and forth like a pendulum. Put differently: Should we charge violently into faraway lands, or allow others to work out their own destinies? Put one way: Should we defend our freedom, or turn inward and ignore growing threats? For more than a century we have debated with ourselves. How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. ![]()
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