Professor calls US post-WWII foreign policy record fundamentally destructive and misguided

What was said

"I feel like post World War II, the United States had the opportunity to do so many good things and then regularly chose to do the wrong thing. And that sort of deliberate misjudgment on the part of leadership, on the part of oligarchs, on the part of the political elite, I think will make it so the United States is judged poorly."

Professor Casagranda delivers a sweeping indictment of American foreign policy, cataloging overthrown democracies from Iran to Chile and wars from Vietnam to Iraq as deliberate wrong choices by elites. He argues the US squandered its post-Cold War opportunity for peace by ramping up defense spending under Clinton and Bush. The critique positions America's global role as fundamentally destructive rather than benevolent.