We need a school of foreign policy, where ordinary Americans can educate American foreign policy experts about foreign policy.
The Neo-conservative foreign policy is “Bomb First, and ask questions later”. Any alternative foreign policy is better than that.
As far as I’m concerned, any ‘foreign policy expert’ is just another has been, or soon-to-be has been looking for relevancy in a time of change.
Their credentials are largely elitist, fueled by teachings from doddering old fools in ivy league colleges and they are instilled into a good old chap network of assholes that will last them through several lifetimes. Elitist netherworld poltroons who wouldn’t know drive by America if they tripped over it.
You’ve summed it up exactly. When O was first elected, my friends in the Dominican Republic were all excited. That excitement quickly faded when he appointed a gay ambassador to their country. It was a clear lack of respect for their mores and customs.
There is NO part of our current Government that isn’t totally corrupt.
Our federal government is infested by the least pro-American segment of the population, graduates of Harvard, our president being Exhibit A. These “experts” consider themselves smarter than God, whom they don’t believe in, and feel free to play chess, with the citizens of other nations being the pawns. No wonder those countries hate America’s government. That is the real “recruiter of terrorists” at work in our world today. Hillary Clinton will change none of that, because she comes from the same egotistical, elite mold.
What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass. Lord Melbourne
The damage was minimal since Japan and the United States enjoy a great relationship both commercially and culturally. There are over 50,000 Americans living in Japan and 850,000 Japanese living in America who know better. This is the reason why any political appointee might do a credible job as ambassador to Japan.
This, however, is not the case for most countries with whom we do not enjoy such a deep relationship.
Foreign policy “experts”, and the State Department, seem to be dominated by Ivy League types, and thus cultural Marxists.
Who needs that!?
The moneyed elites make up foreign policy.....Trump knows this game well....AND...he will clean it up....that is why the globalist are sooooooo worried.
We are their bosses.
We have assessed their performance, they don’t meet our metrics so we are firing them.
In other words they have done a shitty job and we don’t want them anywhere near a position where they can make decisions again.
Probably. Maybe even yes.
I traveled t many counties in the 80’s and 90’s. I laugh at most foreign policy wonks statements and positions. Almost everyone is just trying to take care of their family and just have a decent life.
Go home ugly American and take me with you!
With politicians of both parties, it’s not that they are stupid — they are corrupt.
Yes, the average American can think of better foreign policy solutions, where “better” is defined as “benefiting the average American”. However, to the “foreign policy experts”, their criteria is how well the foreign policy benefits the oligarchs who pay off the politicians.
The "experts" who advised Bush and then Obama? All evidence is that random names picked from a random page out of the phone book would be better.
The ‘Average American’ today is way left on the social, IQ and Christian bell curves. The idea may not even exist.
There’s a great line in Rambo 4 about foreign policy.
“You go sticking your noble nose in other people’s business you get f’d up or you get dead.” -Lewis
Limousine liberals = Globalist
Absolutely yes. Not a single doubt.