connecting*the*dots

I came across an extremely well written article in Newsweek which eloquently supports my stance on US foreign policy (i.e. we’re now bullies and have thrown diplomacy to the wind).

On so many levels, Fareed Zakaria illuminates the wrong turns America has made under the present administration, which has practically ostracized us from both the majority of citizens and governments of the world. Our “go it alone” attitude can be justified simply through our standing as the lone superpower in the world, but in flexing such an option, Zakaria argues that not only do we create a poor perception of ourselves, but our actions contradict the positions of the democratic states we are supposedly attempting to support.

An example: Need an air-base in Turkey? Just bribe the government with billions of dollars of support to make it happen, but as a “democracy,” the Turkish government is actually trying to represent the will of it’s people — an overwhelming 90% of which are against the war in Iraq.

It’s schizophrenic at best.

I’m not doing Zakaria justice, read the article. We’re in a very tenuous position in world history.