Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way

A post 9-11 look at the history of American foreign policy and the precursors to that history from a constitutionalist/libertarian point of view. Looks at the progression from republic protected by militia to empire protected by standing armies in Athens and Rome - and the similar progression in America . American foreign policy has three periods driven by two impulses!. Washington's Great Rule and J. Q. Adams' admonition not to go out into the world in search of monsters to destroy drove the first. We were then the light, not the sword, of freedom. Foreign policy was based on the Constitution and our historical experience with the British Empire. The second period, driven by crusader instincts, began in 1898!