America's Incoherent Asia Policy -- Clyde Prestowitz, Foreign Policy
America's Asia policy is internally contradictory and makes no sense. Four recent events make the point.
In Darwin yesterday, President Obama formally concluded an agreement for greatly enhanced U.S. use of northern Australian military bases. This will give the United States a quasi-permanent presence in waters of Australia, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and India. At about the same time, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was standing on the deck of a guided missile cruiser in Manila Bay and assuring the Philippines that the United States would keep its commitments to maintaining Philippine security.
Read more ....My Comment: I could not have said it better. On a side note .... the Republicans are also not making sense.