One good plug deserves another...

According to recent analysis by Council on Foreign Relations Internet editorial executive editor Michael Moran, “since 1898, when the United States began acting in a way commensurate with its weight in the world, the number of presidential elections—let alone mid-term congressional races—discernibly affected by foreign policy issues can be counted on one hand.” However, the era of domestic domination of American elections may be nearing an end.:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/11383/election_will_turn_on_foreign_policy.html

The war in Iraq, increasing economic pessimism, an evident Republican grassroots revolt against President Bush over his immigration policy stance—which I hear involves something called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America—and a continuing perception of vulnerability to terrorism, especially nuclear terrorism on authorization from Iranian President Mahmoud “Show me the Mahdi” Ahmadinejad or his Stalinist ally in Northeast Asia, “promise to make the 2006 mid-term election the most outwardly oriented in American history.” In other words, this “Jclifford” fellow’s focus on abortion, creationism, assisted suicide, and other domestic social issues seems to me a little outdated. Perhaps I will be particularly fascinated to hear your opinions regarding these foreign policy issues precisely because I am a self-declared member of the “neoconservative Christian right,” which, if Professor Hertzke’s argument is correct, will increasingly be at the forefront of American foreign policy debates.