Question

Are US interests protected better when foreign policy leans toward isolationism or interventionism? Explain.

Answer 1

U.S. interests are now global, therefore requiring interventionism. This question used to be able to have the answer of isolationism. That answer can no longer be accepted. There can only be practices of interventionism. The United States depends on international resources for international businesses that are at the heart of a modern information economy. The resources no longer only include goods and products that are manufactured, but the ability to control and manipulate the exchange of information globally. In order to do this, the U.S. has an obligation to be interventionist and the U.S. backs this up by deferring to an often despised control mechanism, military force.