Foreign policy’s best hope

June 19, 2008 The Washington Post and CKWS-TV

Washington Post columnist David Broder writes that, regarding partisan feuding in Congress, “there is hope of overcoming the divisive legacy of the past six years.”  Sitting down with the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joe Biden, and that committee’s ranking Republican, Richard Lugar, Broder discovers that the senators’ relationship is always respectful, professional, and genuinely friendly.  The two have, “without regard to ideology,” proposed major structural changes to America’s foreign policy, calling for cooperation, rather than bickering, in addressing major issues like the energy crisis.  Read more about why Broder – along with Biden and Lugar – sees bipartisanship as the only way to craft a foreign policy that is truly in America’s best interest.

Broder is not alone in this view.  Not only does he cite numerous similar relationships in Congress – between Democrat Carl Levin and Republican John Warner, for instance – but former secretary of state Henry Kissinger also made the same claim last week.  He bemoans the lack of the “common enterprise” around which foreign policy was once built.  Find out more about why Henry Kissinger believes congressional and even global common ground is needed for prosperity.