In U.S. foreign policy, it isn't always easy to suss out good ideas from bad. The topic I want to explore today is why the United States doesn't seem to be that good at foreign policy anymore.One of my first discoveries was that America's vaunted moral Exceptionalism had little to do with foreign relations. Why does a longdebunked theory keep leading the US into war? Now, some see the rise of other nations and our economic troubles here at home as signs that American power has waned. Martin Luther King, Jr., giving his speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence at Riverside Church in NYC, April 4, 1967. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The sacrifice of lives at Normandy and the millions of lives lost throughout the war argued for an internationalist U.S. foreign policy in the postwar era. Dissenting assaults on the conventional wisdom that China's foreign policy became more 'assertive' in 2009–2010 have intensified. AN ACT To consolidate and revise foreign assistance legislation relating to reimbursable military exports.