&gt; But it’s impossible to guess exactly what the effects of some counterfactual foreign policy over the past century would be.<p>It&#x27;s true we can only speculate as to what the results of a different foreign policy might have been - but after years of disastrous foreign policies with all of the same destructive elements - Maybe it&#x27;s time to build some schools and hospitals instead of bombing another city, sending more guns or eroding more human rights?