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Joe Scarborough asks a compelling question about the state of U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n

How did it get so messed up?<\/p>\n

The one-time Republican congressman from Florida wonders how the world’s pre-eminent military and economic power can get in such a muddled mess.<\/p>\n

I think I have a partial answer. Or perhaps just some food for thought: The end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/03\/history-scarborough-obama-bush-isil-israel-116495.html?hp=l3_3<\/p>\n

Geopolitical relationships have gotten incredibly complex since the days when the Soviet Union sought to control the world and the United States kept pushing back the Big Ol’ Bear.<\/p>\n

Our adversary was a clearly defined nuclear power. It covered 8 million or so square miles of territory across two continents. They were fearsome. Then again, so were we.<\/p>\n

Then the Berlin Wall came crashing down in 1989. Two years later, the Evil Empire imploded.<\/p>\n

Just like that, our Enemy No. 1 was gone.<\/p>\n

In its place a lot of other enemies have arisen to rivet our attention. Scarborough thinks two American presidents — George W. Bush and Barack Obama — have presided over this turmoil. Granted, the Soviet Union disappeared on George H.W. Bush’s watch and his successor, Bill Clinton, managed to keep the assortment of new enemies at bay.<\/p>\n

Here’s part of what Scarborough writes: “Bush\u2019s ideological foreign policy was tragically followed by Obama\u2019s delusional belief that America could erase the sins of the Bush-Cheney era by simply abdicating the U.S.\u2019s role as indispensable nation.”<\/p>\n

I am not certain anyone quite yet is capable of juggling so many balls at the same time. President Bush took dead aim at al-Qaeda immediately after 9\/11, but then expanded that effort into a war against Iraq. Then came Barack Obama — and the world has just kept on getting more unstable.<\/p>\n

But we still haven’t yet figured out how to manage crises that keep cropping up throughout the Middle East and northern Africa. The result has\u00a0been, as Scarborough notes, a vast explosion of crises involving ISIL, Syria, Turkey, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria … and even Venezuela in our own hemisphere. Let’s not forget North Korea and the immigration crisis emanating from Latin America.<\/p>\n

We’ve got to keep our eyes on many balls all at once.<\/p>\n

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