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Can we talk about a foreign policy that does not involve an American ability to decide who lives and who dies across the entire planet? About a foreign policy that does not assume the future of the world's strategic regions is ours to decide?

Again, open for suggestions. We can already see on different fronts across different continents exactly what the U.N. accomplishes in keeping the peace. Other nations are perfectly content to let us take the brunt, and then crap on us for it. Even NATO wouldn't be worth much without us.

If the U.S. doesn't take a part in deciding how the future of the world's strategic regions are organized, there are plenty of others willing to pick up the slack. I'd like to think the Cold War taught us something about that. I don't like it any more than you do, but if the U.S. isn't "world policeman," who do you suggest take the role?

That accepts the probablility that increasing power is going to reside in societies that are organized differently than ours?

Depends on what "different" means. Nobody is worried about Japan sending planes to wreck buildings, or Japanese WMD. China is not that friendly to us, but I'm not particularly worried about Chinese terrorists sneaking a bomb into a city. Neither Japan or China seems all that intent on converting the planet to their culture or religion. China even seems a lot less empire-oriented than the Soviets were.

Radical Islam is another story.

Nobody wants to admit we're in a war, and have been since long before 9/11, because then they'd have to deal with it, and like I said, the anti-war side really has nothing to deal with it.

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