A Foreign Policy for America

     The United States should have a foreign policy based on two principles;  (1) to attempt to effect, wherever feasible, peace and stability in the world and (2) the defense of the vital  interests of America, meaning the integrity of our territory, including our embassies and the safety or our diplomats and their staffs,  uninhibited freedom of the seas and the right to seek access to the commerce of the world.  Beyond that we should mind our own business and tell the rest of the world to stay out of ours.  The meddlesome propensity to spread democracy everywhere should be abandoned.  The internal arrangements of other countries are none of our business and ours none of theirs.

     To make such a foreign policy work we need full energy independence, including coal, oil and nuclear energy, and an invulnerable military so awesome that any foreign leader would have to be insane even to think of using force against us.  With that and a sound economy --- not the mess we have now --- America would be the beacon of hope and inspiration among the nations of the world that we once were.