What National Interest? WHO Controls America? And FOR WHOSE INTEREST?

One day, we all might be fated to meet....The Lobby!

President Obama and his congressional colleagues are carrying on an established, yet clearly dangerous, tradition of U.S. foreign policy — the mixing up of national interest and the parochial interests of powerful lobby groups.Indeed, given the way U.S. federal politics has long operated, national interest is, except in rare cases, an impossible notion.
This is because almost all politicians and both political parties are so tied to, and financially dependent upon, powerful lobby groups that they cannot formulate independent positions on issues important to these lobbies.Thus, what is put forth as national interest is most often the interest of a particular interest group with too much money buying too much influence.  (4thmedia.org)