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Making ceaseless economic expansion abroad the sine qua non of prosperity and stability at home condemned the United States to perennial conflict-Vietnam was a case in point-and would undermine democracy at home . Had the United States and the other nuclear powers not stopped nuclear testing it would have been even more difficult to pressure Pakistan and India to put a quick to their nuclear tests . Had the United States withdrawn its forces from Guantanamo Bay , opened its markets and invested in Cuba , it would have achieved with generosity what it has never achieved with antagonism . Had the United States committed itself to such a program , it would never have secured the support of Iran , Pakistan , Russia , Tajikistan , or Uzbekistan for the war , nor would it have had their help in shaping the subsequent peace . But they insisted the United States had not turned a blind eye to the situation . Viewed from another perspective : had the United States cut its military spending in 1994 by 60 percent , its position relative to potential threat states would still have compared favorably with the ratio of spending that existed in the Cold War year of 1986 . Just as we succeeded in overthrowing Somozacism , we also defeated the counterrevolution , and also brought to trial before the world those who provided that policy of death against the Nicaraguan people , and in an act of historical transcendence for the people of the world , the World Court condemned the United States of America for its criminal acts against the people of Nicaragua and called on the United States of America to cease those acts and called on the United States of America to give indemnity to the Nicaraguan people .... Had the United States stuck with rehabilitating Afghanistan , the entire " war on terror " would have had quite a different set of results . France in that era counted a population of more than 27 million , Britain about 15 million , but only 6 million people thinly populated the United States , two-thirds of them living within 50 miles of Atlantic tidewater . Moreover , only a week after he told the Diet that the United States would not bring nuclear weapons into Japan without asking first , Shigemitsu sent a letter to the U.S. Ambassador where he assured the United States that " nothing in the discussions in the Diet commits the US Government to any particular course of action .