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It is very easy to understand, and even to predict, this administration's foreign policy.  All you have to do to know what is going on in foreign policy is to read the report by Project for a New American Century (PNAC) that was sent to President Bill Clinton in September 2000.

Here's what the report has to say on page 29:

Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has. And even should U.S.-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in U.S. security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region.
Project for a New American Century, Sept 2000

See how easy that is.

Iraq, Iran, and Syria are all targets in this report.  Afghanistan was not, but as we all now know they only went into Afghanistan after they realized that the world wouldn't support an attack on Iraq in retaliation for 9/11.  They don't seem to realize that the world still didn't support it much in 2003 and that the world is showing less and less support for it as time goes on.

For those of you that don't know, ten of the twenty-nine signers of the PNAC report are now serving or have served in the Bush II white house.  Its no wonder that this administration is using that document as its foreign relations bible.