McMaster with John Bolton as his new national security adviser, some foreign policy hawks rejoiced. In an age of overwhelming U.S. military dominance, there is no other country to push back when the United States gets aggressive. At the same time, the United States has had an exceptionally activist foreign policy — while largely evading meaningful international consequences for its behavior. For example, individual leaders and domestic politics influenced whether the United States intervened in civil conflicts in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Libya. Policymakers focus on the use of force because that is where the United States outcompetes the rest of the world.

Source: Washington Post March 29, 2018 09:00 UTC