Discuss Lionel Beehner's Nov. 20 Op-Ed article
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The strategic interest varies with the USA presidents and it administrations. President Bush relied on Vice President Cheney on Iraq and General Powell on Pakistan. These two individuals seem to have acted on personal friendships. It was wrong to jump to Iraq on advice of Chelabi and to award non NATO allays status to Pakistan, because of Powell's hatred of India. There is a need for defining what is in Americas strategic interest.
nirode mohanty @ 9:23 AM PST, Nov 20, 2008
US foreign policy has been based on who we prefer at the moment for decades. We've been Iran's best friend, we've been Iraq's best friend. Bring the troops home. Tell the world, We are no longer going to be policeman, we will do business with whomever wishes to do business, but stay away from our borders. The mess in Iraq is due to centuries old enmity between religious factions. When we removed Saddam, we removed what had kept the sects from openly killing each other. They can say the fighting is because we are there, but in reality, it is because they hate each other over something that happened six hundred years ago.
Gary @ 5:52 AM PST, Nov 20, 2008
I can't believe you can write an article about US foreign relations and not include our relationship with Israel. If you consider Georgia to be an expensive alloy at 1bn, take a peek at what Israel has cost us in the past few decades!
James @ 4:16 AM PST, Nov 20, 2008