DiDirect external threat? Like 9-11, perhaps? Does this sound like a man who would advise Obama to restore democracy at home to serve as an example to peoples abroad?
Of course, given the current financial crisis, caused in part by the disastrous and expensive invasion and occupation of Iraq, as well as by the massive corruption and exploitation in the financial industry, it is questionable whether America can remain the world's "indispensable nation."
And what about Russia?
Zbigniew Brzezinski is joined on Obama's foreign policy team by another Russia hard-liner, Michael McFaul. McFaul is a political scientist is the Hoover Institution on the campus of Stanford University, and McFaul is a former Russian policy adviser to George W. Bush.28 Mention McFaul's credentials to someone who tries to argue to you that Obama is some sort of radical liberal. McFaul favors the expansion of NATO to include Ukraine and Georgia,29 something Russia opposes. Russia does not like the idea of its historical adversaries (NATO) expanding right up to its borders. Obama seems to be quite willing to antagonize the Russia bear by supporting NATO expansion.
Dmitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center in Washington, is a Republican but not a neoconservative.30 He has said, "Brzezinski and McFaul are not known for their desire to engage Russia on anything. If McFaul is representative of Obama's foreign policy thinking, it's difficult to imagine that there will be any sort of positive engagement with Russia if he is elected."31
Failure to engage a nation with whom we disagree is not change. It is the standard policy, as anyone who pays attention to Cuba can tell you.
Simes' prediction bodes ill, not only for US-Russia relations, but for relations between the US and Europe as Europe becomes more and more dependent on Russian energy supplies.
Where are we headed?
...To Be Continued
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