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Another advantage that average Americans have over foreign policy experts. Average Americans socialize with ordinary people in foreign countries. American Foreign policy experts socialize with elites in foreign countries, who are often out of touch with ordinary people in their countries. Limousine liberals exist in all countries.

We need a school of foreign policy, where ordinary Americans can educate American foreign policy experts about foreign policy.

1 posted on 08/15/2016 8:01:04 AM PDT by pinochet
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The Neo-conservative foreign policy is “Bomb First, and ask questions later”. Any alternative foreign policy is better than that.


2 posted on 08/15/2016 8:04:28 AM PDT by pinochet
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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.


3 posted on 08/15/2016 8:05:11 AM PDT by Gaffer
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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.


7 posted on 08/15/2016 8:07:48 AM PDT by knittnmom
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There is NO part of our current Government that isn’t totally corrupt.


9 posted on 08/15/2016 8:09:51 AM PDT by IC Ken
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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.


12 posted on 08/15/2016 8:13:27 AM PDT by txrefugee (..)
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Does the Average American Know More About Foreign Policy Than Foreign Policy Experts?

‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’
— Lord Melbourne —
14 posted on 08/15/2016 8:14:52 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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You are darn close to the target. We lived in Japan for 15 years. Almost all of my neighbors and a vast majority of my co-workers were Japanese. We often read these briefings on Japan by so-called foreign policy experts and had a great laugh about just how divorced from reality they really were.

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.

15 posted on 08/15/2016 8:20:03 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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Foreign policy “experts”, and the State Department, seem to be dominated by Ivy League types, and thus cultural Marxists.

Who needs that!?


16 posted on 08/15/2016 8:20:09 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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The fact that (Alex Soros), who was inspired in his own progressivism by his controversial father, has unfettered access to Kaine—Hillary Clinton’s running mate—is unsurprising. The Clinton apparatus has long come under scrutiny for their closeness with high dollar donor class figures, some of which has prompted federal law enforcement to fight for an official criminal investigation into the “Clinton Cash” narrative..."

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.


17 posted on 08/15/2016 8:24:56 AM PDT by yoe (BLM = Benghazi Lives Mattered!)
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Does the Average American Know More About Foreign Policy Than Foreign Policy Experts?

Judging by the results of American foreign policy under the experts, I'd say definitely yes. I think if some random informed laymen had been put in charge of US foreign policy at the beginning of the Obama administration, we'd probably be more respected and have a world situation more favorable to the US than we do now.
19 posted on 08/15/2016 8:28:29 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_fZXM30mwY


20 posted on 08/15/2016 8:30:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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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.


22 posted on 08/15/2016 8:33:33 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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Probably. Maybe even yes.


24 posted on 08/15/2016 8:35:41 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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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!


26 posted on 08/15/2016 8:41:54 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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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.


27 posted on 08/15/2016 8:43:24 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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"Does the Average American Know More About Foreign Policy Than Foreign Policy Experts?"

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.

28 posted on 08/15/2016 8:46:26 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The ‘Average American’ today is way left on the social, IQ and Christian bell curves. The idea may not even exist.


29 posted on 08/15/2016 8:48:13 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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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


30 posted on 08/15/2016 8:48:24 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly white woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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Limousine liberals = Globalist


34 posted on 08/15/2016 8:54:49 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Absolutely yes. Not a single doubt.


38 posted on 08/15/2016 9:37:41 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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