What Is On The Foreign Policy Horizon For President Obama -- A Commentary

Acid Foreign Policy Test -- Washington Times

Battle in two states, and a one-state delusion.

The struggle in Afghanistan and Pakistan ("AfPak") is President Obama's most urgent foreign policy and national security priority.

Taliban insurgents, with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s slung over their shoulders walk the streets of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, unchallenged by police or army. The pro al Qaeda Taliban insurgency in Pakistan proper spread to within 60 miles of Islamabad, the capital of one of the world's eight nuclear powers. Pakistani helicopter gunships are now in action against homegrown guerrillas.

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My Comment: A good review of what is probably going to happen on the foreign policy scene this year. I would only add the rise of Hezbollah to power in Lebanon and its impact on Israel, and how the economic crisis will further impact the economies of Europe and the U.S. The possibility of Iraq falling back into open sectarian warfare is a remote possibility .... but it is still a possibility.