Thomas Jefferson declared the American way of interacting with the world to be "peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none." However, over the course of at least the past seven decades, the US government has...

It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when it happened, but clear evidence can be seen at least in the aftermath of World War II. Some trace the origins back to 1898 and the Spanish-American War, or even earlier to the War of 1812. And still others would say that...