I agree that American foreign service has a horrible track record. The people attracted to the foreign service tend to have globalist leanings.

American foreign policy tends to work against traditional American ideals.

The reason I responded the way that I did was because I think people have to be careful to separate the negative aspects of our foreign policies from the ideals that we want to preserve.

Imperial ideals are counter to traditional American ideals. They are not counter to tradition Chinese, Persian, Turkish or other great powers. Pushing the idea that the United States needs to be neutered will open up the world for much more oppressive international tyrannies.

For example, one can argue that United Nations and the EU have an impulse to establishing a new world order. If the world heeds the call to neuter the US because our foreign policy is out of kilter with American ideals, then a new superpower will step in. These guys will be worse.

The challenge we face is figuring out how to call out the excesses of American foreign policies without letting this effort being used by the other bad actors of the world.

It is a tough challenge.