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Reflects on the foreign policy of the United States in 1986. American commitment to Europe as the Cold War developed; Policy towards Libya; Invasion of Grenada; Contrast between the enthusiasm shown for Grenada and Libya; Arms race with the Soviet Union.

Discusses the status of the U.S. in international politics, as of 1985. Description of the country's foreign policies; relationship with the Soviet Union; Relationship with the United Nations; Factors that led to the changes in the country's foreign policies.

Focuses on the relations between the U.S. and Nicaragua. Efforts of the American government to exert influence on the political system in Nicaragua; Deployment of U.S. Marines into the Central American government; Controversy over the moral aspects of American influence on Nicaragua.

The author reflects on the monstrosity of European pacifism or neutralism in the situation of the U.S. He added that there is profound moral and political cleavage between the Soviet Union and the Western Nations, and there is no longer agreement among the Western governments about the danger brought about by the Soviet. The Soviet Union is constantly looking more to military measures to find security.

The article reports that the U.S. government has sent more American military advisers in El Salvador and at the economist Arthur Laffer's Laffer Curve. According to the U.S. President Ronald Reagan, the advisers were sent only to train El Salvadoran troops and not to accompany them into combat in Vietnam. The Laffer Curve provides theoretical basis for Reagan's tax-cutting plan.

Points out that it is difficult to determine the number of Libyans who lost their lives when American sea and air forces attacked Libyan boats in the Gulf of Sidra. Claim by Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, that there were no survivors; Observation that Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi did not care how many survivors there were, only that the attack would give him further license to wage global, terrorist war on Americans.

In the article, the author presents information about the French government attitude towards the U.S. and the current political agitation between the two countries. The author recounts that he has been moved by a patriotic article by M. Guihannec, titled, "Washington's Isn't French Capital," as it has an almost epigrammatic clarity, balance, and vigor. Its message of independence brought despair to our American cousins, whose almost slavish reliance on the French nation has been long remarked by several philosophers. Still reeling from their defeat by the tiny countries of Canada and Mexico in the preliminary round of the World Cup football competition last year, the U.S. are ill prepared to face resistance from a civilized and beautiful country with a celebrated culture.