Kennon was a moderate compared to some other men in top political and military positions at the time. The architects of us. Policy argued that by helping to protect and revive capitalist growth in places like europe and japan, the united states is able to describe itself as kind of acting in an enlightened self interestt Sing: Capitalist economics equals freedom, and an essential function of us. Foreign policy is the protection of that particular kind of freedom by any means necessary.