Foreign policy is NOT about making the world better, or at least it hasn't since Roosevelt; it's about ensuring that the administration looks good to significant parts of the US electorate. Latterly that has degenerated into persuading significant donors that their corporate interests are best ensured with the current party in power.

The electorate simply get to choose which corporate representative is in the White House while the media ensure that anyone who isn't a corporate whore isn't electable.

keep to the Fen Causeway