Doug does a good job of showing that we have to many special interests driving our foreign policy. Individual Americans can and should if they so choose to support causes abroad but it shoud be the role of the Federal Government to only promote foreign policies that are both Constitutional and in our direct national interests.
Imagine if you will a country dominated by heavily armed tribesmen who are fiercely independent, frequently engaged in activities that most observers would regard as criminal, deeply conservative in religion and culture but further divided along sectarian lines, and ruled over by a highly corrupt government that is fighting both a civil war and an insurgency.
"O=W" is a bumper sticker beginning to show up on liberals’ cars. After the President’s speech Tuesday night at West Point, I suspect it will spread rapidly.