For US Foreign policy, it’s all power, no influence
By James Carroll | Monday, December 10, 2007 | The Boston Globe
“…US foreign policy is in an unprecedented state of disarray. Humiliations abound. America’s man in Pakistan lurches toward tyranny. Washington’s aggressive moves against Russia, from NATO expansion to missile defense, have helped resuscitate Moscow’s paranoia – and Vladimir Putin’s KGB instincts. At Annapolis, the effects of years of US neglect of Middle East diplomacy were on full display. China openly thwarts ineffectual American efforts to respond to genocide in Darfur. Iran’s crackpot leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made a mockery of the Bush administration, even as the latest intelligence reversal makes Bush’s rhetoric on Iran seem preposterous. Latin America is contemptuous of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, but cheers his anti-American diatribes. Europe cannot believe what it hears from the United States on global warming. America has all the power in the world, and no influence….”…BS
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