As said by the extremely intelligent and well-spoken former ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke. Everyone with even a remote interest in Foreign affairs should read this article.

"To make progress on this daunting agenda, the president must master and control a sprawling, unwieldy federal bureaucracy that is always resistant to change and sometimes dysfunctional. He will also need to change the relationship between the executive and the legislative branches after years of partisan political battle; in almost all areas, congressional support is essential for success. So is public support, which will require that the next president, more effectively than his predecessor, enlist help from the private sector, academia, nongovernmental organizations, and the citizenry as a whole.

The presidency of the United States is the most extraordinary job ever devised, and it has become an object of the hopes and dreams -- and, at times, the fears, frustration, and anger -- of people around the world. Expectations that the president can solve every problem are obviously unrealistic -- and yet such expectations are a reality that he will have to confront. A successful president must identify meaningful yet achievable goals, lay them out clearly before the nation and the world, and then achieve them through leadership skills that will be tested by pressures unimaginable to anyone who has not held the job. A reactive and passive presidency will not succeed, nor will one in which a president promises solutions but does not deliver -- or acts with consistent disregard for what the Declaration of Independence called "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind."

This is why we cannot go with the Foreign Policy initiative of John McCain. We are neither strong enough nor influential enough to solve all our problems unillaterally. We do not have the economic sway on Europe to kick Russia out of the G8, we do not have enough political capital in the Middle East to isolate Iran, and we no longer have enough good will in South America to turn around the leftist movement alone. We cannot simply go down the same road of neo-conservatism put forth by Senator McCain - another cowboy administration would be crippling to American power.