“Will America do A if B happens?”

Is there even an America that transcends party politics, anymore? Could be a function of post-Soviet fuzzed focus, but it seems we’re voting for a new idea of what is wrong and how to fix it every couple of years. We keep changing our attention-deficit and responsibility-stressed electorate mind as to what constitutes threat and what to do about it. Incumbency seems less effective these days at keeping our worldview/ self-view and, hence, foreign policy consistent over a span of even two administrations. Our “pro” cadre of Fed crats resets its focus acc to party politics with each election, as is somewhat usual, but increasingly doing so without much of an overarching in-for-the-long-haul agenda. The tension between national principle and long-term national self-interest in formulating policy seems to have been replaced with flaccid choices between partisan expediency and personal ambition. Will allow that the imperfect Bush admin probably acted in the national interest, or thought it did, although not without a corruption of ways and means to get things done or to reward themselves and friends

Lots of unsupported statements above, but them’s my impressions. Don’t believe as a nation we’re much capable of agreeing, for even a decade, upon (an amendable) threat scenario, consequences, and reprisals. To be fair, neither can the rest of the world, except for Green-Islamo-Transnatties who KNOW the threat is us/ US. We used to lead with a purr and powerful paw, and now what state or free-lance bad actor has been beguiled or made fearful for a meaningful period of time?