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What is our foreign policy?
Tribune Media Services, by Cal Thomas
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Posted By:Maryland_Patriot, 10/25/2012 1:52:47 PM
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| After watching the third presidential debate, are you clear on America's foreign policy? I thought not. That's because there appears to be no singular foreign policy -- rather a series of foreign policies, which must be tailored to fit each nation. I expected Mitt Romney to go after President Obama on his most recent foreign policy failure, the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, including the U.S. ambassador. The president had no explanation as to why there was inadequate security in Benghazi,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
paulfromTexas, 10/25/2012 2:05:54 PM (No. 8961378)
Hmmm....our foreign policy..
"Whatever the muslims want"...
...that's our foreign policy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MDConservative, 10/25/2012 2:19:55 PM (No. 8961426)
The United States hasn't had a strategic foreign policy since the Russians dumped communism for oligarchy. Clinton bombed baby formula factories and Serbs while Bush poured all his chips into Iraq and Afghanistan. Both made friendly with China. Neither had a cohesive policy, unless you think being with us or against us fills that bill. These are the 1930s all over again, with Islamofascism and its growing nuclear armament, territorial stretch and ideology of submission a substitute for fascism, National Socialism and militarism of that era. The major difference is that European allies are broke, toothless, and increasingly pressed by their own domestic Islamofascism, punctuated by terrorism.
The time is ripe for a new American foreign policy after nearly 20 years of drift. It's time for a major revision of our military doctrine and forces, to make them more lethal and put on a weak leash to deal with our enemies, whether traditional countries, or violent international hoodlums given sanctuary or aid by some nation. It does no good to build a modern military and bind it in good intentions and liberal interpretations of international conventions that do not bind our adversaries. Time to lead from the front in our national interests and the interests of liberty.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Nimby, 10/25/2012 3:38:19 PM (No. 8961635)
Is there one?
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A new CNN/ORC International poll found President Obama´s overall approval rating has ticked up to 51 percent but ratings have fallen on his handling of the key issues on his agenda: immigration, guns, and the deficit. On immigration, 44 percent approve of the way he is handling the issue, down from 51 percent in January. At the same time, disapproval has jumped to 50 percent, up from 43 percent in January. On guns, 45 percent approve and 52 percent disapprove, the poll found. In January, 46 percent approved and 49 percent dispproved. And on the deficit, 38 percent approve
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 4/8/2013 10:49:04 AM
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Update: The White House issued a statement on Margaret Thatcher´s death shortly after 10 a.m., hours after the news broke. The entire statement is printed at the end of this report: (CNSNews.com) - Hours after the BBC reported the death of conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Monday, President Barack Obama still had not issued a statement on her passing. But last week, within half an hour of film critic Roger Ebert´s death, the White House tweeted a statement from the president. As of 10:00 a.m. EDT on Monday, there was still silence from the White House on Thatcher´s death,
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