Has US foreign policy ever been anti-communist?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Part of the problem of thought like this is to conceive of the world in things like absolutes as opposed to a spectrum of actions. The potential for, or even the existence of, restraint by the United States in any host of situations in opposing communism would prove nothing either quantitatively or historically. I would beg you to ask a Marxist about America's actions abroad; they would insist detente--which you probably perceive as national and ideological betrayal--as merely another in a series of cloaks hiding a massive, nefarious conspiracy of international capital to oppose people's movements. The point is that seeing one side's restraint as unmitigated concession does not mean that the other side even has any sense of that. For the absolutist on either side of "something", compromise is betrayal, since what they seek is the globe.