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US foreign policy continues to face a dilemma, characterized by the American public's desire to maintain the country's predominant role in the international affairs and their reluctance to send troops to fulfill that role. Such a dilemma will present numerous complicated problems for US foreign policy-makers in the new world of internationalism. To effectively solve such a dilemma, the American public must be made to understand that sacrifices, both financial and human, will have to made to fulfill the US' international commitments.
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The high cost of internationalism.
Turning world affairs into a morality play is an old American trope. "With God's help," declared one senator during a debate occasioned by some particularly terrible episode of the Sino-Japanese War, "we will raise Shanghai up and up until it reaches the level of Kansas City." The indignation over what the Japanese were doing was real enough, but apart from embargoing certain exports to Japan, neither the executive branch nor Congress was willing to do very much to actually put a stop to Japanese aggression. The parallel with Bosnia is obvious enough, and the gap between President Clin...
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