Foreign Policy Increasingly Flows Through Pentagon


	Foreign Policy Increasingly Flows Through Pentagon

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3-7-2008 8:38 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d8ad3a42-6256-41a3-b5a7-8e52889e2c13/B363BBE2-C4B0-46E0-9ADB-934F74AB3F43/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7542/" href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7542/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.commondreams.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7542/"><P>WASHINGTON - U.S. foreign policy is becoming increasingly dominated by the Pentagon rather than the State Department, and Congress is doing virtually nothing about it, according to a new report released here Thursday by several human rights organisations.<A title="0307 05" href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/wp-content/photos/0307_05.jpg"><IMG width="350" vspace="10" hspace="10" height="304" border="0" align="right" alt="0307 05" src="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/wp-content/photos/0307_05.jpg" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7542/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.commondreams.org/img/8E40280C-0666-46D3-ADBD-DE1A266E683E" alt="0307 05" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7542/"><P>That domination is being achieved not only by the creation of new military aid and training programmes controlled by the Pentagon — particularly those related to the so-called “global war on terror” — but also by the growing power of “combatant commanders”, top officers who oversee military operations across entire regions of the globe, according to the report, entitled “Ready, Aim, Foreign Policy”.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/07/7542/"><P>Indeed, a major strategy document prepared last year by the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom), which oversees all U.S. military operations in the Caribbean and Latin America south of Mexico, proposed that Southcom coordinate all relevant U.S. agencies, including civilian agencies, “to address the full range of regional challenges”.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B363BBE2-C4B0-46E0-9ADB-934F74AB3F43/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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