American Greatness
Michael Finch
Sept. 15, 2018
The Wall Street Journal last weekend featured a lengthy essay by Robert Kagan titled “The Cost of American Retreat†in which he argues that U.S. withdrawal from the world invites chaos. Kagan’s essay is proof that the lovers and protectors of American Empire are not about to go away quietly.
Perhaps the question Kagan should have explored is at what cost can we continue this quest for empire?
Kagan doesn’t directly come out and say the election of Donald Trump is a return to autocracy. He is more measured and restrained in this than others—Bret Stephens and Jonah Goldberg, just to name two. But by calling out this “retreat,†Kagan still manages to condemn well over a century of American foreign policy history—a tradition and an outlook, in fact, that extends to the American Founding.
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