Reply #31: How did you think our foreign policy..

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would have changed at this time? And what are your expectations for the future?

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Middle_East/USFP_MiddleEast.html
Causes and Consequences of Our Foreign Policy in the Middle East and What It Means for Americans
by Karen Kwiatkowski
www.lewrockwell.com/, February 22, 2008
Our foreign policy may seem disorganized, but in the Middle East it has been deliberate and in many ways, well thought out. It has not shifted dramatically from president to president. Jimmy Carter is often seen as a very different political person than a Dick Cheney, a George Bush, or even a Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton. Yet events in the late 1970s under Carter's executive watch were both a maturation of the actions of previous Republican and Democratic presidents, and set the foundations for our present-day policies. Do we remember the Carter Doctrine, and the establishment of Central Command? This history was made in my lifetime, and for many of you, only a few years before you were born. Carter set a direction, followed by Reagan and Bush. Clinton left his mark with a pseudo-war that gave us brand new bases in Bosnia and Kosovo - not outposts of southern Europe, but rather forward bases for the Middle East and Caspian Sea theaters.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chalmers_Johnson/AmericaBroke_FantasyWars.html

America Is Completely Broke, And Here We Are Funding Fantasy Wars at the Pentagon
by Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com
www.alternet.org/, February 3, 2009