Consortium News has this great article America’s Short-sighted ‘Grand Strategy’. I’ll give you an excerpt from the conclusion, but you must read the article to see how the author came to this conclusion.

Today America’s central foreign policy problem and the problem of American militarism can be simply stated: Military strategy is trumping grand strategy. The result is not only a state of perpetual war, but as the emerging Ukraine and China policies show, it is one of an expanding confrontation that can lead to even more war and more blowback.

That, in a nut shell, is why it is time to do a grand-strategic evaluation of the coercive unilateralism that is evident in America’s ever-mutating war on terror, its meddling in Ukraine, and its so-called strategic pivot into China’s backyard to threaten China’s exceeding vulnerable sea lines of communication and “contain” China, whatever that means. The time is ripe for a substantive political debate on a real issue.

The article explains why I think that the war-like foreign policy of the Obama/Clinton administration is so reprehensible. The current need to demonize Iran even by supporters of the Iran Nuclear Deal is tragically short-sighted.

I am glad to be able to add this article to the arsenal of this blog in trying to explain what is so wrong with our unnecessarily aggressive foreign policy.