![]() foreign policy is of similar consequence, which makes this a critical time for the reemergence of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, one of the most visible and influential advocates for American internationalism for the better part of the last half-century. ![]() domestic policy, as hard-line partisans on both sides trade insults and epithets while the nation’s economic, education and energy needs remain mired in gridlock.īut the stultifying effect on U.S. The impact of this hyper-polarization has been thoroughly documented in terms of U.S. The other constructs barriers to prevent the flow of goods and capital by blocking free trade. ![]() One party builds walls to prevent the flow of people by obstructing immigration reform. In an age in which advances in technology, communications and transportation have dramatically shrunk the distance between cultures and countries, in a nation that became a global superpower by assuming a leadership role economically, diplomatically and militarily over most of the last century, isolationist forces at the extremes of both of our major political parties are pulling the United States away from its traditional role on the world stage.Ĭonservative Republicans and liberal Democrats are equally complicit in this withdrawal. ![]()
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