[iconoclast]

Washington is under control of profit-seeking, politically contributing corporations, probably with public ownership. The Washington strategy is how to make money, not defend America.

What you say is true, ex.

But to compound the problem our foreign policy has not been defined by OUR national interests since we left Afghanistan.

[ex-snook]

" But to compound the problem our foreign policy has not been defined by OUR national interests since we left Afghanistan."

A big bump for that truth. ['OUR' meaning American citizens, not multi-nationals who no longer claim to be American.]