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I believe in a strong foreign policy, I won't deny it. I'm not an opponent of interventionism. I'm a proponent of //realpolitik.// Morals are ambiguous things, utterly subjective and relative and should be kept out of foreign policy decisions. The same goes for political or religious ideology. Foreign policy-wise, America should always act in its rational self-interests. We are a superpower, like it or not, and we should act accordingly. We have done (in my eyes) objectionalbe things in the past, but that is no reason to not intervene. Rather, it should serve as a "what not to do" lesson. I believe that it is a rational, logical, and dutiful thing to act in your nation's and its people's objective best interests. So I won't object to a pro-USA coup in some country, but I will raise up and challenge when Americans are sent to fight and die for a country and cause not our own.

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