Food for thought
The Rise of Muslim Fundamentalism
http://www.danielpipes.org/5327/the-...fundamentalism
Not bad as principles go, but the first two points deal with domestic issues, and the US can't do much to assure them in other countries without violating the 3rd principle.
I don't think much of the world is terribly keen on anyone acting as "policeman", especially where internal issues are concerned. The perception, warranted or not, is always that the "policemen" are acting primarily to advance their own interests.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken
Food for thought
The Rise of Muslim Fundamentalism
http://www.danielpipes.org/5327/the-...fundamentalism
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