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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I like two of the 9’s...personal income tax and corporate tax but have concerns on the VAT. IF Cain would appoint John Bolton as Sec of Defense..he would learn all he needs to know about foreign policy
“I had written Perry off after the third debate debacle. But I am sending the man $500 tomorrow. We have GOT to have adult leadership in the White House. Cain has yet to pass through political puberty.”
Talk about throwing money down a RAT HOLE. We all know that Perry is finished because we know what he thinks of the Republican base when they don’t agree with his coddling of illegals.
At least give your money to Newt, who’s been climbing in the polls lately anyway, and hasn’t made an ass of himself (yet).
I was going to ask the same question.
You raise some valid concerns about Ron Paul’s (somewhat erratic) foreign policy views.
As a point of clarification: I did not say I agreed with anyone (i.e., Paul) on giving “support” (your word) to the enemies of Israel, if, in fact, he does take that position. That is not a position I take.
However, I WAS citing Paul’s advocacy of simply staying out of all these far-flung countries, although, I suspect, down deep, that we cannot completely withdraw within ourselves, as lovely as that might sound.
Yes: Israel is indeed a technological wonder. However, I do wonder if Microsoft and Apple could manage to get their code written in the US, for a change? Just a thought.
FYI Herman Cain explains 999.
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