U.S. must maintain role on world stage

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist assault on America and her people, it has become popular practice to lay blame for the cowardly attacks squarely upon the shoulders of either the evils of capitalism or the foreign policy of the United States (or a combination of both).

What these pseudo-editorialists and opinion leaders posit however, with respect to foreign affairs, are unrealistic solutions to a complex set of issues.

The peace-nicks and pacifists blame our close ties with Israel for much of the anti-American sentiment in the world. But most of them, I would surmise, don’t understand our affiliation with Israel and never did. It is irrelevant to their cause.

One recent Arbiter article by Taylor Newbold suggested that our foreign policy causes terrorism, stating that, “

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