Can any of the US presidential hopefuls foster comity and a coherent foreign policy?
Regime change is not a coherent foreign policy, nor has it ever been. At best, historically, it has bought time. At worst, it has created and armed new enemies and dangerously tampered with regional balances of power. Regime change is never truly regime change unless it has come from a grassroots level. Still, this is the path the current US government has chosen – the path to chaos and instability. Regime change in Iraq has turned the entire region into a greater threat than anything Saddam Hussein could ever have dreamed up. The lack of a clear plan for nation-building – with the possibilities for this decreasing daily – has paved the way for a long and bloody civil war and opened the door for Iran to play a major role. This, in turn, has prompted Arab states to pursue their own nuclear programs – a recipe for disaster for which some of the ingredients are coming from the US. As the US works to delimit the Iranian nuclear program, which the Bush administration fears is being used as
