I’m not so hyperbolic to suggest that racism, homophobia, and misogynism drive US foreign policy, but I still maintain that religious and cultural sensibilities are severely lacking in the people who execute said policy. From the interrogators at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib to the Blackwater mercenaries who kill indiscriminately, “bad apples” certainly exist among policy executors.
The most pressing problem, as I see it, is that our policy makers ignore the “bad apples.” More accurately, they ensure that “bad apples” are not prosecutable under US law. The 2006 Military Commission Act places those who serve our national interests by executing our foreign policy into “the legal equivalent of outer space,” as one Administration lawyer put it.
US foreign policy is driven by a set of political goals created and enforced by the head of state. The policy is designed to protect our national interests of security, prosperity, and ideology. We will fail to achieve this unless we change our current track.
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