Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

I believe that our foreign policy should be based on what's good for the U.S...accomplishing our objectives...regardless of what form of government our sovereign counterparties choose. What's important is that we really have what our objectives are well-identified. Somehow I get the impression that for a time now we've concentrated our efforts on planting democracies instead of really knowing and acting on achieving a broader set of national objectives. It seems to me that China and India, even Russia, have used our narrow national focus to significantly further their national interests while we've chosen to be busy elsewhere. That really needs to change.

Ooops, I used that word, didn't I?