By Daniel Levisohn

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m aghast at how quickly the world can change. A week ago, I expected to watch the Olympics and enjoy the display of friendly global competition. Instead, I spent much of week reading headlines about how the United States and Russia were abandoning almost two decades of mutually beneficial diplomacy to reenact the Cold War. What just happened?

Pundits have speculated that this election was going to be about domestic issues: healthcare, the economy, the price of oil. But it looks as though we may have a foreign policy election yet. Today, we have yet another major news headline from abroad: President Musharraf of Pakistan has resigned. From Iraq to China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran, the United States will need an affective foreign policy as badly as it ever has.

It seems to me that American citizens have been unhappy with the unilateral approach to foreign policy over the last few years. But I could be wrong. In this “change” election, do you think people want a new foreign policy direction? What kind of foreign policy are you looking for? Are you looking for a big change from Bush’s approach or are there parts that you would keep? How do you think the two candidates have dealt with the situation in Georgia?

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