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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (7518)10/25/2001 11:00:21 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi CobaltBlue; I agree that we need to review our foreign policy (oil and Israel) and our relationships in the Middle East.

I'd add that we need to review our economic relationships as well. I'd like to see us using reduced barriers to trade as a weapon to change the character of other countries, rather than heightened barriers to trade being used as an (inefficient) club to try to force them to our will.

The Marshall Plan was a carrot, but the most effective part of it was the lowered trade barriers. And that plan had the effect of changing the world in a way that made it much safer for us and in a way that we will always be proud of.

-- Carl

P.S. Re the Philippines. We had only been there 18 years before we promised them their independence. This is not very long on the human scale of things. India's been fighting to hold onto Jammu & Kashmir for 53 years.
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