Three examples of the result of our foreign policy:

-Backlash from The Great Iraqi Snipe Hunt, combined with the stress on the US armed forces from engagement simultaneously there & in Afghanistan — where the Taliban took advantage of the distraction — leads to weaker recruiting standards, resulting in bloodthirsty mentally-imbalanced whackjobs ending up in Iraq, where they can rape and kill civilians.

-Our symbiotic relationship with Israel, which includes military aid, leads to missiles with american flags on them landing in Lebanon.  For that, a reporter of ours relays back to us the following exchange from a mass burial site:

A Shiite sheik arrives and begins talking to members of the media. I pull him aside and ask him one question: “What message would you send to the people of America?” “Israel?” he asks. “No,” I reply. “America.”

“I love the people of America. It’s the government I hate. Tell the American people that we received their gift. The missile that they gave to Israel - we have received it, and this is the result,” he says, motioning to the coffins.

I thank him, but he says nothing to me - just glares, turns abruptly and walks away. (emphasis mine)

-Double talk and sabre-rattling leads a South American populist & a middle eastern theocrat into each others arms:

The presidents of Iran and Venezuela, leading U.S. critics, pledged Saturday to support one another in disputes with Washington, with the Iranian calling Hugo Chavez “a brother and trench mate.” […]

Chavez pledged that his country would “stay by Iran at any time and under any condition.” Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, said he saw in the Venezuelan president a kindred spirit. […]

Chavez, who peppers his speeches with mentions of assassination plots and purported U.S. efforts to oust him, said he admired the Iranian president for “his wisdom and strength.”

He invited Iranian oil companies to invest in Venezuela. Venezuelan state TV also reported that the countries are considering having Iran participate in a natural gas project off the Venezuelan coast.

Reflect on these for a moment.

BTW: in case anyone is wondering why the abundance of content on foreign policy lately, I personally feel this issue is the key to virtually everything else at the moment.  Basically if someone can look at the direction our foreign policy is going and not have a problem with it, they’re on the other team.