From the Inbox
In reference to CFR.org’s Backgrounder, “The Impact of the 110th Congress on U.S. Foreign Policy,” reader Peter Throumoulos writes:
A rock-ribbed United States foreign policy is as it should be. The Congress must not employ the U.S.’s military might as the proverbial, “policeman around the globe”, but must, now, and in the future take a more ‘hands-off’ approach to the matter of foreign policy issues, and defer the subject and its inherent diversity of economic, social, defensiveand commercial more to the Executive Branch, i.e., the President and his advisors, including the appropriate Federal Departments and Agencies of whom have more expertise to facilitate and improve upon International Law.
The United States Congress[House and Senate] in the 21st Century must be relegated to Domestic Policy, as a proper methodology to preclude that branch from squandering their collective energy by enmeshing their ideas where they, rightfully, don’t belong, even if it means scraping Congressional Constitutional powers from them. The assumed humiliation will be mitigated in due-time by a balancing of political forces which can’t help make for a much “tighter” foreign policy, lest left to the whims of many voices from both of the two major political parties, and, snugly, cradled into a focused and concentrated Central Government.
–Peter Throumoulos
January 8th, 2008 at 3:36 am
What are you talking about? I can’t believe you are actually promoting this.
Go back and read what the founding fathers said about that…we will never see such a coming together of such brilliant minds as we did with them. Everything they wrote about in regards to separation of powers and having too much within the executive branch.. applies more than ever at this point in time…