Where is our "iron curtain" voice?

In recent weeks, President Obama and Governor Romney has, directly and through surrogates, discussed Iran, Libya, Egypt, Iraq and Afghanistan. Everyone has different ways told us how he would deal with terrorism. Both have talked about China, when it comes to jobs. Monday, Mitt Romney gave his first major speech on foreign policy campaign.

However, there is one thing that the incumbent and challenger have largely ignored. None has given the American public context, an explanation of why there are so many crises at the moment. Winston Churchill in 1946, provides the framework for his Iron Curtain speech, and we need a speech of this kind for our time.

What is the context of the second decade of the 21st century? What makes the world so hard these days, is that authoritarian giants, China and Russia, are thieves and training other harmful components. So, in a sense, we have a problem in Syria. We have a Russian. Similarly, it does not really face difficult challenges of "atomic" ayatollahs of Iran or North Korean dictator Kim because, more fundamentally, we have a disagreement that encompasses all the leaders of China, which support these rascals. To put it another way, we could solve many global problems in the short term if we could bring Russia and China into the picture.

But of course, this is not possible. So Obama and Romney needs to address the challenges posed by these two powers in the international system led by the United States. Since the end of the Cold War, we have tried to negotiate with China and Russia and its integration into the international system.

Therefore, the U.S. authorities subordinate objectives important to maintain positive relations with Beijing and Moscow. For example, we tried to recruit both in what should be our most important goal at the national level to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In this decade and the last Washington agreed in the Security Council and the Board of Directors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, compromises and half-measures to win the support of the Chinese and Russians Regarding the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea.

However, the optimistic vision of America's great powers the unit has not yielded positive results. After failed attempts to get as Beijing and Moscow, we must recognize that China and Russia are partners to solve the world's problems. They are, in many ways the problem.

Over the past two decades, Washington almost always tried to manage the crisis of the moment, regardless of what was really behind it. We need solutions, but ignoring the most important problems in finding fast solutions is costly in the long term. Ultimately, we must recognize that authoritarian states to contribute to the great, and sometimes cause instability. America needs not only new policies, but a part of the new foreign policy.

It is perhaps too much to ask thoughtful discussion of foreign policy in the middle of a busy career policy, however, opponents of the United States will not stop their problem behavior until the vote.

We need another Iron Curtain speech. The great democracies are challenged.