Michael “Lance” Newby writes regarding my comment on Austria below:
>>We pull our guys from Austria in a show of unsupport for a very “far right
>>wing”, yet freely elected govt, then we coddle, schmooze, and placate an
>>authoritarian, communistic, oppressive (enough adjectives), and THREATENING
>>China?
>>
>>99% of the United States has absolutely no idea of how incompetent our
>>foreign policy has become.
Funny, I’ve never thought of our foreign policy as really being a policy, because it’s never been consistent in my eyes. Rather, it seems like a bunch of tiny, unrelated agreements. I guess it was around the time other countries demonstrated nuclear arms capabilities that America started treating countries on a case by case basis.