Does anyone really know what our current foreign policy is — other than apathy to everything happening in the world? Has anyone heard from our Secretary of State in weeks? How about her husband? There’s a whole lot happening in the world. I guess one approach is to sit on the sidelines and watch while the world around us changes. I would be a little more comfortable if we were proactive.
Venezuela seems to be aligning with some dangerous folks and building up arms, Iran is working on nuclear bomb capabilities and is getting close, Russia is courting anyone who dislikes us, Cuba is talking with China and others, North Korea is still just being North Korea. What have we done? We distanced ourself from our ally Israel, we decided not to protect our allies in Europe with a missile shield, we don’t know whether to surge or run in Afghanistan, we started our abandonment of Iraq, and we even managed to tick off Canada with our trade policies.
I hope our whole foreign policy isn’t: (i) follow the United Nations and (ii) hope everyone likes us more now that George Bush is out of office. I fear that we are losing our grip as a global and we do not have the economic clout we once had to overcome bad foreign policy. As the dollar dives, our position in the world declines and our safety is in jeopardy.
We need a strong foreign policy and a strong Secretary of State. We currently have neither. Does any reasonable person feel more secure with respect to Iraq, Iran, N.Korea, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Afghanistan or Russia in 2009 than they did in 2008?
