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Will Foreign Policy Play As Much Into The Election As Healthcare?

By: Melvin Martinez (Diary)  |  August 15th, 2012 at 05:35 PM  | 

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For the first time in decades, the Republican team running for the White House has little substantial foreign policy or military experience.

Seizing on the opportunity, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign opened a new front against the GOP ticket on Wednesday, drilling Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on veterans issues…

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  • commonsenseobserver

    Especially with Hopelessly inept Veep who should be a foreign policy expert but actually opposed the Osama raid.

    • rbdwiggins

      The Obama Administration claims Egypt as a foreign policy success. Outside of their thinly constructed cocoon, the real world watches as Egypt Begins Descent into Tyranny.

      Barely two months after taking power, the Muslim Brotherhood has wasted no time in swiftly taking Egypt down the road to a totalitarian state. Its latest target is Al-Dustour, a Christian-owned newspaper, which had condemned President Morsi

  • gekster

    In a campaign conference call, former Navy secretary Richard Danzig and retired Army Maj. Gen. Wallace Arnold accused Romney and Ryan of not not having a

    • checkmate2012

      Yeah like O had any foreign policy. And his VP, Biden, if he ever had any substantive experience, he forgot it by now. He bungled most foreign policy decisions in his career. Geez.

      Romney dealt with multi-national corporations that gives him experience with several countries. Just his common sense alone is worth more than the two clowns in charge.

      • commonsenseobserver

        Remember the last time Joe Biden wanted to partition Iraq and opposed the Osama raid?

        Paul Ryan has more foreign policy qualifications than Obama in 2008. He had to cast a tough vote to send our troops into war, and probably see friends and constituents harmed in the service of their country. And Joe Biden’s foreign policy experience ought to disqualify him.

    • WmCraig

      By backing the wrong people, the Obama administrations has pushed the world closer to another world war. Specifically the same calamity that sullied the twentieth century, and it will be started by the same people for the same reason.

      Arab Islamic Imperialism.

      Obama, after first failing to act in support of the green revolution has since used military power to aid Muslim radicals in support of the over through of regimes that have maintained relative peace for decades. Compared to the world wars, the scuffles in the middle east, right through the first gulf war were minor.

      The question is will the newly empower Islamist governments wait until after the election to begin their reclaim of Israel? Will they wait until after the election to incite revolution in Europe. Will the powers on the side lines, in Asia, Russia and south America stand by or will they use the collapse to expand their influence and gain a buffer for their own protection against Islamic Imperialism?

      The question isn’t if, but when.

      And then foreign policy will have little or no effect unless it is delivered by the military. Not over the horizon military presence that the Obama administration favors, but boots on the ground efforts.
      And for that I don’t know if Romney Ryan is the right choice, but Obama is absolutely the wrong choice. Of that I am sure.

      Romney Ryan ~ restoring prosperity

      • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

        I would hardly call foreign policy meaningless.

        But If there is a war, It will not be a world war, it will be over with pretty quickly, one way or the other.

        That is because, if we get involved, the American people will not support another long term occupation. We will destroy everyone and then let them pick up their own pieces, and that will happen no matter who is president.

        Devastation, a brief occupation, then we are outta there. Otherwise, the costs will intersect with all the other costs we have made for ourselves and our economy will completely fail. We are that close to the brink.

        • acat

          It’s the Pentagon, not the State Dept. driving… and “foreign policy experience” has long been code for State Dept. approval.

          Mew

        • WmCraig

          I am not as confident as you. The middle east has the same feel as in 1973, and if all of the players decide to act again, Israel will be in a world of hurt.

          That war shut off oil, shut down the straights of Hormuz and the Suez canal, cut off oil to Europe. This one will do all that and cut off oil to China too. I am not sure how China will react. They have their own agenda.

          Since 1973 we have outsourced everything. All our manufacturing, and most of our raw materials for energy. Not sure how we can survive and prosper with no markets and no suppliers. Our navy will be very busy trying to keep the ocean trade route open and I am not sure that China given their changing role will be pro American.

          This could be a very long drawn out war. The Arabs have nothing to gain by direct confrontation, and everything to gain by a slow insurgency throughout Europe. And they have enough boots on the ground already n France, England and most European countries to influence politics. Lets not forget that a large number of not Mexicans are flooding into our country over the southern border. They have friends in the reconquista movement.and you know they were not blind to what a few special forces accomplished against Saddam’s forces in the Kurdish regions.

          With all that, foreign policy will be dictated by the loudest protestors on the home front. And as Cat said, by the Pentagon.

          I would have liked a Petreaus pick for that reason. His record would have been enough to scare some sense into the Arab Iranian overlords, the way the Reagan/Bush team did. But our internal focus basically gives the Arabs a free hand to make their dream of more than a thousand years come true.

          • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

            I welcome a confrontation, better sooner than later.

            But things are not quite what you make them out to be.

            1) There is no solidarity among Islamic nations whatsoever
            2) They are not really all that clever, far thinking, or wise
            3) They can barely control their own people or military’s.
            4) Several of them would be bankrupt if not for our funding.