The future, in many respects, looks dark for opponents of interventionism and the National Security State. US troops are currently involved in civil wars and "policing" across a wide swath of the Middle East, Europe, and Eastasia. Our political class is firmly committed to a globalist ideology that disdains the very concept of national sovereignty, most especially our own. And what Dwight Eisenhower called the "military-industrial-congressional complex" is more firmly entrenched than ever, extracting billions from the "public" purse and filling their coffers at our expense.

Furthermore, the presidential election is hardly encouraging. The prospect of Hillary Clinton in the White House must surely cause even the most optimistic among us to consider building one of those backyard bomb shelters so popular during the cold war era and stocking it with a couple of years supply of emergency rations. She has all but threatened to go to war with nuclear-armed Russia, intervene massively in Syria, and ratchet up NATO's encirclement of the Russian bear.

Yet these are all short-term concerns: in the long term, we anti-interventionists have every reason to be optimistic.