From Yahoo News/AP:WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama should shift the main U.S. foreign policy focus in the Middle East from Iraq to curtailing Iran's nuclear program and promoting peace agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors, analysts at two prominent Washington think tanks proposed Tuesday.
Prepared by 15 experts at the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations, the report calls for restoring balance to U.S. strategy and making more use of diplomacy in the Middle East.
For the past six years under President George W. Bush, U.S. foreign policy in the region has been dominated by Iraq, said Martin Indyk, director of the Saban Center at Brookings, and Richard Haass, president of the council.
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My Comment: Another report that emphasizes soft power and diplomacy as the approach that the U.S. should use in the Middle East. I am not too sure on the impact that such a strategy will entail. The U.S. has applied this tactic for years in the Middle East, and what we got in the end was 9/11.