(Analyst's note:  Troubling.  I've read this National Security Strategy, May 2010 and find it says very little -- kinda like motherhood and apple pie.  Rather than strategic goals, it just tries to address everything this administrations has ever promised and thus provides very little of use.  This document interestingly spend a fair amount of effort and space in "Promoting a Just and Sustainable International Order" and effort to "renew American leadership in the world."  The document however uses the term "leadership" when it what they really mean is "popularity."  It is certainly NOT a guiding document.)

"[...] Basically, it says on foreign policy, we'll do what we can, as long as it doesn't cost too much."

"[...] When a national security strategy lists healthcare reform alongside "work[ing] to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon," it's arguing that international goals shouldn't override domestic goals."

"[...] The short version — to save you from reading 52 pages of numbing generalities — is this: We still want to do a little bit of everything, but after almost a decade of war, we're overstretched and need to concentrate first on fixing the domestic economy. When it comes to problems overseas, we'll do what we can as long as it doesn't cost too much."