And Roger.

This may be, in the case of the so named "Western Democracies" an extension of our focus on the democratic theory which GW Bush so perfectly elocuted in his second inaugural (much better weather effects that time), namely that democracies do not fight each other.

Not entirely true but divorced from this theory the US would likely forsake the mantle of neo-conservatism and regress splendidly into non-interventionism if not isolationism.

As such your above posting would need to re-assess for the body of believers that there is no good foreign policy except none at all, which is a legitimate and widely held undercurrent of US Populism and Nationalism both.