From Democracy Digest:

…In judging a president’s record of pursuing a moral foreign policy that makes Americans safer but also makes the world a better place, adds Nye adds. it is important to look at the full range of his or her leadership skills, to look at both actions and institutions, commissions and omissions, and to make three-dimensional moral judgments. RTWT

Some became so absorbed with how power was being deployed in the Middle East, Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg told 60 Minutes’ Margaret Brennan, that they neglected to articulate what liberals should be fighting wars for, The New Republic reports: “We were so horrified by the way that democracy promotion was done at gunpoint then, that it very nearly made our party into isolationists, when actually we’ve often been the ones who believed in more international engagement.”

Buttigieg does not believe liberal internationalism is a problem, let alone the problem; to him, its absence can only lead to a “total isolationism [that] is self-defeating in the long run”—and that creates a haven for America’s enemies and autocratic regimes.