"Ferris Bueller famously said, 'Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.' In the twenty-first century the U.S. foreign policy has moved pretty fast: from conservatism to neo-conservatism to liberal neoconservatism. To keep up, we need to look around, or we will miss the big picture: that U.S. foreign policy is moving toward colonialism."

Michael Schwartz writes about the paradox of liberal foreign policy here.