Could foreign policy be Hillary Clinton’s downfall?

The American president is more moderate on foreign policy, and more sceptical of intervention, than the hawkish woman who may succeed him this year, says TP O’Mahony

THE consequences of American foreign policy are often catastrophic. Think of Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. And yet the lessons of history are continuously ignored.

The foreign-policy elites in Washington DC are animated by two assumptions: (a) the rest of the world wants to be like us (Americans), and (b) therefore, we (Americans) have a God-given duty to reshape the world in our image.