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Take a look at this article Democrats' Foreign Policy Pickle - WSJ.com to get a feeling of what the Democrats have in mind with a victory on Tuesday. Rep. Tom Lantos, a California Democrat who would chair the House International Relations Committee under a Democratic majority, said public opinion could force the president's hand. "If we take one or both houses, then the administration will have to take into account that the mainstream public view is that we are very off course in Iraq," he said. Mr. Lantos, for his part, said he would use his possible new perch to advocate policies that would be "dramatically more multilateral and dramatically more respectful of other countries' views." He envisions a series of hearings in the spring that call to Capitol Hill all former secretaries of state and national security advisers to weigh in on "the U.S. national security predicament." He also hopes to travel to North Korea, Iran and Syria. "I strongly believe in the need for dialogue with people that you strongly disagree with," he said, adding that the Democrats' first stop, postelection, should be the White House Just what the county needs, the European approach to foriegn relations. .