We serve as the "Global Police Force", and are engaged in sveral concurrent wars at the moment, most of which have fulfilled their objective (i.e. terminate Osama bin Laden) or which should never have started (i.e. Libya). We've strayed far from the wise doctrine established by our first and foremost president to "avoid foreign entanglements". (See Washington's Farewell Speech ). We must remain strong and free, but don't need to flaunt that strength as much on unnecessary engagements.
Also on the military front, it seems to me as if the concept of NATO is suffering from the law of unintended consequences. Instead of forming a strong alliance of equals, all of the non-US participants have dropped or slashed their military budgets, knowing the US is obligated to protect them. So, instead of growing stronger, the whole has actually grown weaker. Meanwhile, our own borders are inadequately protected.
There is much aid in the form on non-military exports as well. I don't have a problem with humanitarian aid at all, though I also believe Americans would be better served and more engaged in actual human relationships if this were managed mostly via private channels. If you think about it, outsourcing US jobs to other countries is a form of foreign aid because those transactions are free of the usual fees such as employer payroll taxes.
One form of aid which galls me is our exporting of abortion. In a land founded on the pursuit of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", we should suffer with our own mistakes internally, and not inflict them on others.
Personally, I'm looking for leadership which exports less death, more person-to-person assistance, wields military strength for the defense of its' cotizens, creates a level playing field in the global economy, and considers the wisdom of fewer one-sided alliances.
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