Friend To All, Ally To None

NATO is dead; outside of Britain we have few (if any) true allies. Victor Davis Hanson sees this as an opportunity:

The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way we have been doing business for 50 years, and it may well be time to grant the French, Canadians, Germans, Turks, South Koreans, and a host of others their wishes for independence from us: polite friendship — but no alliances, no bases, no money, no trade concessions, and no more begging for the privilege of protecting them

The Seventy Year War is over. Perhaps it's time we slowed down our march to Empire (been there, done that, remember?) and returned to some of the earliest guiding principles of this Republic:

"I sincerely join... in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and though I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto." Thomas Jefferson

And while I'm on the subject of foreign policy, think on this and then discuss among yourselves.