US Foreign Policy: Time for a Reshuffle

US Foreign Policy: Time for a Reshuffle

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_reckoning/2012/09/29/is_it_time_for_a_us_foreign_policy_reshuffle_.html

By Michael Moran
Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012

The times, they are a changing, but even under a man who put “change” at the top of his agenda in 2008, not much is changing about they way America deals with the world. Obama’s State Department has ridden the waves, but done precious little to prepare our shoreline for storms to come.

This is not about Armageddon or “the next 9/11.” This is about the lack of deep, long-term thinking in the foreign and national security posture of the United States. The Iraq pullout and Afghan draw downs aside, the United States continues to act as if its hegemony will persist for decades, as if opportunities to reshuffle various global decks will remain available for decades to come.