The reluctance of America’s regional allies, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to support negotiations with Iran, however, reveals that America’s alliances are often aligned for the best interests of whatever country the U.S. is allying with, and not the U.S. itself. Were Barack Obama’s foreign policy not isolationist in results but non-interventionist in intention, the waning of American influence abroad could be used to strengthen America’s foreign policy position by making it independent of the entanglements of others without instead becoming merely an unreliable partner still vaguely interested in meddling.
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