Comment “Looking Forward Sifting Through the Process and Doctrines of the Foreign Policy of America
Adal Isaw”

In this fast changing world (in terms of economic and military power and environmental challenges) I believe that the four US foreign policy doctrines are being outdated by each day. What worries me most is that Americans have hard time to learn that their policy doctrines are losing traction shortly after crafted.

 Without knowing how their foreign policy doctrines are losing traction, they may take far more reckless measures to put square peg in a round hole anywhere, anytime. My advice for enlightened Ethiopians is different from Adal’s. Help our country craft foreign policy doctrine that put us at equal footing with any other nations, while helping her make economic advance.

Our communications (at any level) with any nation’s representative or agency (of any level) has to be on equal footing, too. Communications intended to please Americans do not work because understanding American interest is nothing short of wild goose chase. Thus, our communications must deliver a message how we (Ethiopians) will be pleased to have a certain relationship package.

 We are poor. But we are a nation who prevailed catastrophes that put other nations in disarray (USSR, Balkans, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, and West Africa, Iraq). We are capable to do anything. Our problem is that we barely know that we are capable of doing anything. (FYI: China is not shown up in the recent State Department’s Human Right Violators’ Report)

. (Desta 03/12/08)