| I don't think US foreign policy is good because of some inherent quality of the values thereby promoted, it is good because in the matter at hand it is focused against a genuine threat, international terrorism. If the US had reacted to 911 in a different way, had they retrenched, withdrawn, isolated themselves, the Islamic fundamentalists would be at the gates today. Had they instead bargained with them, they'd be blackmailed now. It really does come down to that "either with us or against us" line, there is no middle ground here. Iraq is a bit of a detour, but its within the general target area. |