Poll: Americans' views on foreign policy

Ahead of the CBS News/National Journal Republican presidential debate on national security and foreign policy taking place on Saturday night in South Carolina, CBS News surveyed Americans to find out their views on Iran, China, Israel, North Korea and other countries; their feelings about whether the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have been worth the cost; and which of the Republican candidates are most ready to serve as commander-in-chief and to handle an international crisis.

Wow so the same political class that screwed up the war is the one to put in place to “fix” it?

Truly the American people are insane. they keep doing the exact same thing over and over and wonder why they never get a different result.

Mitt may have done his Mormon arecruiting work in France way back when, but he knows little about foreign policy. Newt has been out of gov. work for a few years, so what does he know any more than anyone else?

No one running knows any more than Mr. Cain about foreign policy! And I trust Mr. Cain would would handle it much better than anyone else running for the office. All candidaates are novices until they are actually in the oval office.

Go Herman Cain! He is the man with the plan who can! Without Cain we are down the drain! Come in out of the rain and vote for Cain!! YES!

Atleast Cain is saying attack our friends and we attack you. GWB said I think you have WMD or I think you may attack us thus we will attack you first. Americans do a good job of reacting to an attack. Even Dems support attacking Afghanistan after 9/11. What Americans are poor at is starting a war to prevent a possibly bigger war. When GWB enter Iraq there were no vast warehouses filled with WMD warheads. Oops. PR disaster. Then the people of Iraq did not come out and greet us as liberators like WW2. We blew away the strong man that held the artificial Iraq nation together, then the Sunnis and the Shiites sat back while Saddam loyalists and AQ conducted a guerrilla war with IED. Quick victory became 10 years of nation building and the results are still TBD. US was very lucky that AQ brutality turned the Iraqi Sunnis against them and swung the war in our favor. AQ blunder saved our butts from a protracted costly war of occupation. The coup de grace to US involvement was the Wall Street meltdown of 2008. Wars have victories and misfortunes. The American bankers destroyed our military power by destroying our finances to wage war. Given this reality no matter who is POTUS the US must come home. Just like Vietnam War, Desert One were bitter lessons of US weaknesses/limits, the Wall Street meltdown is another bitter lesson. Before we can re emerge we must button down the bankers and resolve our debts/deficits.

Since you lied about Herman Cain, who is a devout Christian NOT an atheist, I will not address the rest of your post to me except to say that I had to hold my nose to vote for GWB, who subsequently began the steep decline of our blessed country via the wars in the Middle East, and other overspending. He paved the way for Obama.

The evil Left is out to do Herman Cain in by any means they can create themselves, and if the people are stupid
enough to believe them, then there can be no help for us.

Without Herman Cain we are down the drain!

I think my Macular Degeneration is getting worse. This is the second time I’ve misread a word in two days! I am so sorry. Your word Atleast I misread as Atheist! Please forgive me.

Did everyone happen to hear Michael Savage yesterday?

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