Altruism: The Poisoned Apple Foreign Policy Tactic

An article entitled Has American Foreign Policy Ever Been This Screwed Up? over at American Thinker was recently posted by a friend of mine on Facebook.  He was lamenting, as do I, the extremely altruistic ridiculousness that has become America's foreign policy "Poisoned Apple."

I posted the following on his thread:

Many of our foreign policy gaffaws are directly attributable to altruistic intentions--just like our domestic policy pushing us towards socialism / fascism. We don't fight wars to win; we fight to be nice or nation build. We send buckets of money in aid to foreign countries to ease our consciences over supposed guilt we should be feeling for our wealth--which according to so many on the Left--we have "stolen" from other nations. Stop for one minute and really think about that statement bandied about by the Left--then when you figure out the ludicrousness of it--get back to me. I've never known, from the perspective of critical thought, what the hell that statment is supposed to mean. We arm our enemies or we help dictators when it suits us and then turn on them when it doesn't. Dictators are either bad all the time (which they are) and should never receive help from the likes of the bright blessings of America or they're not bad and, to drop an Objectivist philosophical phrase, we need to "stop trying to have our cake and eat it too."

The author of the article, Michael Filozof states:

American foreign policy is in a state of total disarray. I don't think that our foreign policy has been in straits this dire since the early 1960s, when we rushed headlong from the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis straight into Vietnam. At least then our foreign policy was consistent in its anti-communism.

I almost laughed out loud when I read that!  It's not that an element of it isn't true--but since Wilson and FDR--when the hell have we not been creeping towards socialism and collectivism in this country thanks to the Americn Left?  The American Left has never been "consistent in its anti-communism!"  The Right has been consistent, at least verbally, if not in their actions--but, let's not kid ourselves here--the Democrats have never been consistent in their anti-communism.  The Left in America despised Reagan precisely because of his anti-Communist rhetoric.  The Democats love dictators and collectivism!  It's in their party's platform for crying out loud!  If you believe people have a right to healthcare or any other commodity for that matter--you're a Communist!  That's what defines them!  Good grief people! 

All in all, the author of the article is quite correct in his analysis:  we have a foreign policy built upon a platform of inconsistency and immoral "do-gooder" altruism--i.e. giving away much more than we expect to get back.

It's all just so utterly ridiculous.  You sort of expect this altruistic foreign policy crap from the Democrats--because it's what they do.  But, when you have altruistic foreign policy dripping from a Republican administration, as it did under George W. Bush, then where does that leave us?  We started all of the "don't shoot at the enemy unless you're shot at first" bullshit under George W. Bush.  We're throwing money around the world like we're a drunk Daddy Warbucks on a spending spree at Tiffany's; we have already maxed out the nation's credit cards.  As for the Leftist mantra "we've stolen all the wealth from the world"--did I miss something or have our Secretaries of State been running around holding guns to the heads of the guards of foreign treasuries demanding to be let into the vaults?  If so, it's probably the first time Hillary has donned a ski mask and I missed it!  Damn!  Know what though?  I bet she never looked more beautiful!