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Europe's unity has become increasingly fragile as national ambitions gnaw at the fabric woven to turn the Continent into a new superpower. The hopes of the 25-member European Union have stumbled against Russia's reach for world influence and its own inability to speak with one voice on foreign-policy issues, such as Iraq, which have divided its ranks.
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In a preview of the sharp foreign-policy jabs expected in the general election, Sen. Barack Obama charged that Republican Sen. John McCain is "fear peddling" when criticizing his desire to talk directly with U.S. adversaries. Mr. Obama, using his dust-up with the White House to rally Democrats, linked Mr. McCain to the unpopular President Bush, accusing them of "bluster," and told South Dakota voters, "They are trying to scare you.
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Several Dubuque residents, including former Dubuque mayor Tom Tully, are making national security and foreign policy issues their business. Tully remembered a recent vacation in Ireland with his wife. After attending a church service, a stranger asked the them if they were Americans. They replied, "yes.
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The key forces shaping the new global communications environment for diplomacy include technology, geography, economics, patterns of public reliance on the media, and a set of cultural and linguistic concerns. Together they elevate the importance of media, government and public agendas about critical foreign policy issues. Factors that contribute in are discussed.
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The problem is that at the same time that we are trying to impose sanctions, China has become a leading trading partner with Iran and, in fact, has increased its investment and trade, and Russia remains the leading supplier of arms to Iran. [...] the potential for impact of these sanctions is undercut by the actions of these two countries-others as well, but those two in particular-because they are so significant to the Iranians and they are members of the P5+1 negotiation group at the same time.
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[...] the governing party is in trouble because of adverse short-term forces (such as bad economic times), and, in the extreme, the governing party is torn asunder with internal factionalism or, worse yet, a third-party challenge. [...] the opposition party mounts an "indirect" campaign that does not focus on the "core" policy issues that divide the two major parties (as the opposition party would be greatly disadvantaged in this kind of policy debate), but rather on "peripheral" issues such as a scandal or foreign policy crisis.
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Steven Kull of WorldPublicOpinion.org, +1-202-232-7500
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By LINDA SPICE lspice@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel
