AND, since I've been, in the view of some, in the pocket of Bush et al when it comes to foreign policy, a brief listing of disagreements I have with the current administration: insufficient support shown to allies who want to do more fighting terrorism (Italy and Australia, in particular); lack of engagement in southeast Asia, particularly the Phillipines (aside from the Abu Sayyaf kidnapping rescue operation, which was rather spot-on); the unwillingness to make the massive investment needed for building up Afghanistan, particularly where military strength is concerned; lack of support for dissident movements opposing the Islamic state in Iran and the Yasir Arafat in Palestine; complete neglect of the significant but solvable economic and governmental crises in sub-Saharan Africa (Zimbabwe in particular); dealing with the bad guys against the pluralist secular opposition forces in the Sudan; propping up the horrifically corrupt Saudi regime; not sufficiently strengthening economic ties with Great Britain to provide a more effective counterbalance to the growing clout of the EU; neglecting the well-being of any nation to the south of us in our hemisphere (the odious legacy of Kissinger lives on, I'm afraid); and... well, I guess that's it.
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