Why Is The U.S. Continuing To Guarantee The Security Of Wealthy States?

Michelle Newby, National Interest: Should the U.S. Continue to Guarantee the Security of Wealthy States?

The Center for the National Interest partnered with the Charles Koch Institute to host a foreign policy roundtable. Among the issues addressed was: Should the United States continue to guarantee the security of wealthy states like Japan and South Korea?

The United States has been providing security for Japan since the U.S. occupation began at the end of World War II. At the time, Washington intended to transform the country into a parliamentary democracy and thwart Soviet influence in the Pacific. Similarly, the United States has been providing security for South Korea since the 1950s, when the Korean War ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty. The United States viewed protecting South Korea—then a poor and underdeveloped state—as necessary to preventing the spread of communism.

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WNU Editor: This is not sustainable in the long run .... the U.S. is trillions in debt, and this spigot cannot continue forever.