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In light of the perception of failure in the last four years, America is in desperate need of a National Security strategy and a foreign policy to sustain American Interest and simultaneously contain, reduce factors that attract various groups of global Jihadist to recruit by exposing the hypocrisy and self-defeating behavior of Radical Islam, and rehabilitate badly bruised ideology of democracy.

This strategy should not change with different administrations and should not be ideologically driven either by Republicans or Democrats. We need to understand that we cannot afford to be divided on this and this division is going to be our Achilles Hills much more so than the global Jihadists or Marxist Chaveztistas. The plus one-billion-strong Muslim world is ready to explode and many in the region stand to benefit from warmongering, financially, politically, and could care less to take their own citizens to the slaughter. Ian Shapiro's new book Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror contains a few more guidelines:

...doctrine that can be appealing to the American electorate, defensible in the court of international public opinion, and attractive to America's democratic allies.

We also need to redefine, and if need be, revamp our National Interest to include new economic, social, and political/ideological threats, risks and realities on the ground. And most definitely, come to terms with it in a bipartisan basis pronto. Balkanization a la Bernard Lewis is not going to work where the transnational Jihadists have made an alliance with the drug mafia lords in every imaginable nooks and crannies in the world. This emerging group of Islamists/Marxists have invested in a very diversified portfolio of legitimate and illicit economic and political industries/ideologies that could sustain them indefinitely. In sum, we don't foreign policy makers who can't see the forest for the trees and who are only in it to collect a Federal Government paycheck.