Posted on 12/11/2014 12:46:32 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Obamacare, illegal alien recruiting programs, gun-grabbing, Benghazi/ISIS, Iranian nukes, Russian invasion of Ukraine and other threats to neighboring states, and the sonderkommando Soros won’t live to see the next election cycle if there’s any justice in the universe.
Fox News Poll: Record 58 percent would repeal ObamaCare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3235917/posts
"In the foreign policy of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, all nations are equal and should be treated with respect and empathy, regardless whether they are friends or enemies. Let me be very clear, -- When it comes to dealing with radical Islamic terrorists who are crucifying Christians and beheading children, what our foreign policy needs is not additional empathy. It needs clarity, force and resolve to defend the United States of America."
Ted Cruz 2016 - He might not be Reagan, but he’ll be as good as him.
Sherman is right. Foreign policy is defined by the foreign policy period such as the Post WW2 period, the Cold War Period, the Post Cold War Period, which can be broken down into the Post 9-11 period, the Post Bush Period, and the Post Bin Laden Period.
You can break the Cold War Period down into three periods: the pre oil shortage period, the oil shortage period, the post oil shortage period. When the oil shortage period began the rising price of oil gave the Soviets sizable sums from their exports with which to create problems. But eventually oil supply caught up with demand, the price of oil began to fall, the Sauds flooded the market, the Soviets went into a nose dive, and eventually collapsed. The same thing is happening today. The rising price of oil in the oughties gave Russia sizable sums from exports with which to create mischief, but supply eventually caught up with demand and the price has begun falling and Sauds are flooding the market. Putin/Russia might be in deep doo doo.
OTOH, in the 70s, during the oil shortage period, the US invoked the Carter Doctrine, which is still a major component of US foreign policy.
Beyond all that, both parties have competing foreign policy doctrines. In the GOP there are Realists, NeoCons, and Isolationists. Democrats have Realists, Liberal Interventionists, and Anti war pacifists. Right wing isolationists don't have much influence on foreign policy and Antiwar pacifists don't have so foreign policy is determined by Realists, NeoCons, and Liberal Interventionists.
GOP presidents' foreign policy team is always made up of Realists and NeoCons while Dem presidents' foreign policy team is always made up of Realists and Liberal Interventionists.
As a broad and general statement, you can say that under Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and GHW Bush, the Realists were the most influential. The Liberal Interventionists rose to power under Clinton and the NeoCons rose to power under GW Bush. The Realists have had the most influence under Obama.
As for Ted Cruz, he is trying to project that Realists and NeoCons would share power if he was prez.
The next presidential primary should sure be an improvement over the two that Romney destroyed.
THE COUNTRY NEEDS THIS MORE THAN THE SENATE .. That was the whole point of what I said.
The next POTUS needs to be a billion times better than Reagan. Ronny Ray-Gun may have been tough on the Soviets, but he pussed-out to the Islamists, grew government, and continued the erosion American liberties.
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