On the late 19th Century Notion (and as Espoused by Such Imperialist Vermin as Teddy Roosevelt, Brooks Adams, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.) that Absent a Robust and Expansionist Foreign Policy, America's Republican Institutions Would Shit the Bed and Our Prosperity Would Rapidly Vanish

So, is 120 years of abject failure (and, yes, I would consider WW2 a failure in that not only did we NOT liberate Poland, we essentially conceded all of Western Europe to 40 Years of slavery) sufficient evidence that this is pure bullshit............or do we need to keep killing people in order to "liberate" them?......Please, an answer.