American's Role in the World - Chas. Krauthhammer

America’s Role in the World
BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER as recalled by Marc A. Thiesen

Unlike Rome or Britain or other classical empires, Americans do not hunger for territory.  We like it here.  We like our football.  We like our rock ‘n’ roll.  We’ve got the4 Grand Canyon and Graceland.  We’ve got everything.  We are not an imperial power, but commercial republic that by pure accident of history has been designated custodian of the international system. …

We Democratic Realism:  which sees as the engine of history not the will to power but the will to freedom.  America will support democracy everywhere, but we will commit blood and treasure only in places where there is a strategic necessity.  Put another way, we will intervene where it counts.