Posted on 10/16/2011 11:25:34 AM PDT by Def Conservative
When pressed for answers today on Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq, the best Cain could do was to repeat his mantra that he would consult experts and then figure it out. Which is to say that he knows he hasn’t a clue but hopes no one will care. The program also produced Cain’s admission that he had no familiarity with the neoconservative movement. While being a subscriber to COMMENTARY isn’t a requirement for the presidency, the idea that someone running for that office had not even heard the term suggests that Cain is not only bereft of foreign policy experience, he apparently has never even read much about it.
As COMMENTARY readers know, neoconservatism has a long and honorable history as the movement that helped mobilize the country to oppose détente and the Soviet Union as well as having played a key role in critiquing the failures of the welfare state. During the Bush administration, leftists used the word as an epithet seeking to demonize those who believed not only in the need to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but also in the whole idea of promoting democracy abroad. After all that, it truly says something about a public figure that would admit to never having heard the word or to know what it might mean.
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yeah because electing Presidents who claim to have all the answers like both Bush’s and Clinton/Obama, instead of admitting they don’t have all the answers like Cain has worked SO well for us./s
Yes, Obama was had so much more expertise in foriegn policy when he was running for president.
Sheez. . . .
A lot of folks don’t like his 9,9,9 plan. Every other candidate has shown nothing but a 0,0,0 plan.
The man at least looks for real solutiions instead of just spewing more garbage.
How is getting us involved in 5 endless wars, the way the current Political class has done, proven their “smarts” on Foreign policy?
He is probably right in thinking that. This is going to be a straight up economy election like we have never had before. Foreign Policy will be pretty far down on the list this go round.
Sure he had.
After all, he'd been to Indonesia, Kenya and Pock-ee-stahn.
I’ll take proudly ignorant over ignorantly proud any day!!!!!
Right. So the new Caine Rule for Foreign Policy is: "We've tried smart. Let's try stupid for a change."
Excuse me are you saying that OBAMA’S lack of experience is the marker for electing yet ANOTHER inexperienced unqualified President. I DON’T THINK SO.
See #10.
Yeah, like Carter, Clinton, and the Cretin-in-Chief are geniuses in this area.
Face it political types, your trade is just about entirely populated by folks who are not exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Else, they’d be doing some useful for society.
And, of course, Cain has done many useful things already.
Jealous, perhaps?
The Republican establishment is outraged that Cain doesn't read the stuff that they read, and doesn't subscribe to their pet publishing project.
I saw number 10 — and if you stand by that, you are just breathtakingly ignorant.
If you retract 10, we can talk.
I’m not saying I’m willing to jump on the Cain bandwagon, but I like the idea of a candidate more interested in domestic policy than in foreign policy. He’s running as president of the U.S. and not president of Israel or president of Europe or president of the Middle East, and I’d like him to concentrate on our problems before the problems in other countries.
Herm will see how the UN works :-)
Asked what he thinks about the country’s relationship with the United Nations, Cain said: “I want to give the UN a chance to work. But it does not work in the way it ought to be working right now.”
Should United States withdraw from the organization? “No, because I want to take a look at the situation,” he said. “I want to take a look at how it is structured. I know how it is structured generally speaking, but no, I’m not ready to just throw the baby out with the bath water yet.”
Poor Little Commentary got their feelings hurt? What a shame.
Best definition of a “neo-conservative” I ever heard was: “a Liberal who just got mugged.”
They are generally former Democrats — predominately Jewish — who are mediocre, at best, on social issues, but oh-so-quick to interject US forces around the world in wars they deem appropriate. They love Romney.
Only thing is: They usually choose the places they want us to intervene (Iraq, Afghanistan), while ignoring others (e.g., Cote d’Ivoire, Congo, etc) that would be equally worthy of our intervention, if the goal is to save lives and prevent the metastatic spread (via arms) of Islam across the African continent.
Of course, Ron Paul would say: Let’s stay out of all these places. Sometimes I wonder if he is not correct.
Of course Gore wasn't subjected to that quiz.
Jug-ears Knows All and Does no Wrong
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