Foreign policy

Josh Marshall has a great article in The Atlantic about Kerry's probable foreign policy if he is elected. I haven't really done a lot of reading on this subject in a long time, although foreign policy was my particular interest back a million years ago when I was a government major. It's nice to see something that makes so much sense.

...the Taliban regime was not so much a state sponsoring and directing a terrorist organization (the Republican view) as a terrorist organization sponsoring, guiding, and even hijacking a state (the Democratic view). Overthrowing regimes like that is at best only the first step in denying safe haven to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Equally important is creating the institutional bases of stability and liberalization that will prevent another descent into lawlessness and terror — in a word, nation-building.