[ProCivitas]

The best sort of foreign policy for a nation with our responsibilities is 'Reserved Unilateralism' or 'Defender' Policy. It's basically the 'Reagan Doctrine': 1. offer financial, material, and training assistance (as affordable and prudent)at reasonable prices to those being oppressed by bad/illegitimate regimes. 2. No First Strike; Guaranteed Overwhelming Second Strike.

If a legitimate ('constitutional representative democracy')ally is attacked we cheerfully decimate the attacker, and at very reasonable prices.

Beyond that we encourage/urge pro-democracy reform everywhere, in concert with other pro-democracy nations around the world. Ands we should probably encourage economic self-sufficiency/localism /Fair Trade around the world.

And if there is a another pro-democracy nation in a given region THEY should probably be handling whatever assistance is needed in defending an innocent neighbor from attack, or helping folks within a neighbor country under an illegitimate/thug regime resist oppression. It shouldn't be left to us all the time.

[Reagan Man]

The Reagan Doctrine was a policy of supporting anti-communist insurgents and standing by our democratic allies at the same time. If you mean we should apply that to the WOT, I would agree, but only to a certain point. There is no evidence that our efforts to spread democracy throughout the Islamic world is working. In the ME, democratic freedom always seems to be trumped by religious fundamentalism.

Lets promote a strong Reagan-like Doctrine against terrorism, without promoting policies of globalism. We've shown the world more then once what it means to be an American. America can solve her own problems without looking towards the world for answers. The answers we seek as a nation can be found right here in the good old USofA. Protect and defend, the #1 priority of the federal government. Promoting political conservatism and constitutionalism here at home, hold the answers to America's future.