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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: NickSE who wrote (105866)7/16/2003 7:58:55 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The deeper issues of US foreign policy are the ones that are the most disturbing. When the foreign policy of the US took a sudden turn in a radical new direction towards "regime change at all costs" -- the lying and related nonsense that was used to push this "at all costs" policy in the case of Iraq degraded the credibility, prestige and moral authority of United States. There is more to global leadership than the kind of political power that grows from the barrel of a gun -- to quote Mao. To have lowered the standards of American leadership in this way, while peeing all over our allies before charging into Iraq on our own to squash the "threat" -- only to discover there was no threat -- it is truly very sad indeed.

I am not partisan on this issue -- I do not have any party affiliation. I was outraged when Clinton looked into the camera and lied. But Clinton's sleazy denial was nothing compared to what we have seen in the past year. I am profoundly troubled by the direction of US foreign policy and the way it has been "sold" and prosecuted. When Bush appears in public he creates an image of America that does not serve us well -- the image of an ignorant country that lies and kills to get its own way, a country with a dumb, loud-mouthed bully as President.

There are serious global issues and serious national security threats. By engaging in self-indulgent war-mongering in Iraq, where there was no threat, we have created enormous damage to our position as the leader of the free world while putting off action where it really counts -- particularly in North Korea.
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