At Long Last, Washington Remembers Its Own Neighborhood

Originally published by the Daily Signal

At the dawn of the new year, the most important foreign-policy debate facing the United States isn’t unfolding in Ukraine or the Middle East. It’s playing out much closer to home—in Central and South America.

The United States has long viewed the Western Hemisphere like a fire extinguisher: important in theory, hopefully unnecessary, out of mind unless something is on fire.

For decades, U.S. foreign policy has reflected that view, chasing crises in every corner of the world while overlooking the one region whose stability most directly affects American security: The Western Hemisphere.

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