List of priorities USA needs to follow before it is too late

[Kantor]

Oh, and as for these suggestions flying around about how America should stop policing the world:

• America's intention is not to police the world. The fact that it does so is a coincidence.
• The invasion of Afghanistan was well within American interests, and not invading would have constituted an enormous danger to national security.
• Iraq is more questionable, but there's no doubt that there were selfish motives involved. That is, America did (intend to) gain from the war.
• Libya confuses me slightly. I think it's because America (and Britain and France and Italy) expected the rebels to win from the very beginning and wanted to align themselves with the correct side. Libya also requires a much smaller investment than Afghanistan or Iraq
• America does not exist in a vacuum. The last time you tried to stay isolationist, we ended up with a six year long war that killed 70 million people, and an intense 45 year cold war to boot.
• As (I'll be honest here) the brightest beacon of liberty, democracy and justice on Earth, it is America's duty to spread those virtues. If it doesn't, it ends up surrounded by authoritarian dictatorships with no free speech and a rigged justice system, and that's not good for anyone, least of all America.
• Global co-operation will help the USA in the long term. It is worth the investment of a few hundred billion dollars a year to save yourself the expense of enormous wars (real wars, not invasions), not to mention the inconvenience (and, I daresay, danger).