This moment demands a wholesale change in how the United States conceives of international engagement, both to meet immediate crises and to recast American foreign policy thereafter. stephenwertheim writes
A protester confronts police in Tunisia. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The scenes out of Afghanistan this past week — triumphant Taliban fighters crowding into a hastily abandoned presidential palace, civilians clinging to the undersides of American planes rescuing a lucky few from Kabul — marked the end of a war and perhaps the end of an era. But the Taliban takeover is just the beginning of the Biden administration’s foreign policy troubles.
How astonishing, then, that a ravenous pandemic, mounting climate chaos, and the bloody evolution of the global war on terror, each of which has made a mockery of borders, has scarcely altered U.S. foreign policy or the debate surrounding it.
This militarized outlook ends up impeding positive forms of engagement, even when the United States stops short of using armed force. It channels concern for human rights into animosity toward wrongdoers, putting the impulse to stop evil above the imperative to help. It turns democracy promotion into a warrant for punishing and sometimes invading non-democracies .
Admitting refugees might not grab headlines like proclaiming an “axis of evil” does. It won’t qualify as “bold,” “muscular,” “clear-eyed,” or any of the other preferred terms of the foreign policy class. But it would be far more effective in alleviating suffering and promoting stability than occupying another country. Welcoming refugees ought to replace slaying monsters as the hallmark of a new American humanitarianism.
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