Kennedy: U.S. will consult Europe on foreign policy

Europe to be in loop on foreign policy: Kennedy

ROME (Reuters) - Europe will be kept more in the loop about U.S. foreign policy after mid-term elections which swept away Republican control of Congress, senior Democratic party member Senator Edward Kennedy said on Thursday.

Kennedy, the Democratic senator for Massachusetts and the younger brother of former President John F. Kennedy, said his party's newly won control of the U.S. House of Representatives would bring a desire for greater involvement.

"There is a new game in the United States now," he told reporters after meeting Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.

"There is a new desire to have more involvement, where the Democrats will be participating in foreign policy...to a much greater extent. I think we have ideas that are constructive and positive," he said in Rome.

Kennedy was asked if the Democrats' mid-term election victory would lead to better dialogue between the United States and European countries, some of whom felt excluded from decisions regarding the war in Iraq.

"I think we are dealing with the situation. I was personally opposed to the war but that was yesterday," he said. "I think that what we are trying to do now is (decide) how we proceed now. That's really the challenge."

Asked if Europe would be kept more in the foreign policy loop than in the past, he said: "Absolutely."

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Well, this is certainly reassuring. Separation of powers issues aside, if the pussified, failed former powers of "Old Europe" -- who are already well on their way to Muslim domination of their cultures and institutions -- are to be consulted in matters of American foreign policy then Sharia in America might be closer than even we had anticipated.

To kern an acronym -- WTF?!