But if we implement a sensible and effective foreign policy in central asia and the middle east then the people there might cease to be inflamed and up in arms about western interference. The whole basis for the war on terror would be undercut. The military would have to be called home and budgets severely slashed, and there would no longer be any justification for the massive buildup in domestic security agencies and for the international gulag of secret prisons with accompanying kidnapping and torture. Billions in aid to corrupt foreign governments and their brutal militaries and odious secret police would have to be cut. Governments in that region would stabilize in the absence of foreign interference and the drug trade would be drastically reduced as trade normalizes. Such drastic and unprecedented policy changes could mean the end, in other words, of the American Empire.