The Essentials of an America First Foreign Policy
by Ryan Setliff

America First!—should be the rallying cry behind an American foreign policy tailored to serve our vital national interests through strategic independence and armed neutrality. Speaking on the Old Right position on foreign affairs, Joseph Scotchie notes, "A post-Cold War foreign policy that combines a strong national defense and a nation free of such globalist organizations as the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization has been a good enough model for the Old Right." ¹ In relations with other nations, the Old Right is apt to question the logic of globalism and globalization, and affirms skepticism of interventionism abroad. Though, the Old Right's principled position is sometimes denigrated as isolationism by detractors, the Old Right readily concedes that "isolationism" is not the historic foreign policy of the United States. Nonetheless, a foreign policy geniunely tailored to serve the national interest eschews foreign entanglements, alliances and security commitments and reckless intervention abroad.