We the folks who live in this country, are kept in a very dim light about our foreign policy. We didn't listen to one of our founding fathers.For example the berlin wall might have come down because of missed communications between the ussr and the eastern german regime.There are several theorys about this.China and nixon was never fully told to americans, and I'm one of the guys who think nixon was pretty good president except for water gate, I don/t think he demanded the break in.We have troops scattered around the world that few people know and care about.The enemy of my enemy has been a disaster for us, beginning with Iran.We supported Batista in cuba because of our sugar industry, he was corrupt, and the cubans didn't support him, so we wound up with castro..Toppling saddam didn't solve anything. We didnt press france or england after WW1 and the middle east was turned into nothing but trouble. As far as I'm concerned the " marshall plan was the only success we had from two wars.