IS ALFRED E. NEUMAN MAKING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY?

摘要

President Obama's attitude to the rest of the world could be summed up in the motto of Mad magazine's Alfred E. Neuman: "What-Me Worry?" Obama genuinely believes that U.S. actions around the world for decades have made things worse, not better; that we have been a malignant influence; and that other than powwowing at international confabs and kowtowing to the pretensions of the UN, the less the U.S. does overseas, the better. Even a cursory look at history would demonstrate that U.S. passivity is a green light for dangerous behavior that ultimately affects our very safety. Too bad the President never took a look at what happened in the 1930s and 1970s, when Washington was seen as the capital of a weak, declining power.