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Does the Average American Know More About Foreign Policy Than Foreign Policy Experts?

Posted on 08/15/2016 8:01:03 AM PDT by pinochet

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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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I don’t think so. They have to pay attention first.


4 posted on 08/15/2016 8:05:47 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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It’s worse than that. It’s “let’s take out foreign leaders we don’t like/don’t go along with some globalist and/or money making scheme and replace them with guys who are infinitely worse and hardcore mohammedans, thus ensuring mass butchery”.


5 posted on 08/15/2016 8:07:04 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Well, of course, yes there is that. You first have to engage in some kind of two-way dialogue to discern their true no-value, but I still maintain there still isn’t any “there” there to start with. :0)


6 posted on 08/15/2016 8:07:25 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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Pretty simplistic view.


8 posted on 08/15/2016 8:09:13 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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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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To: Gaffer

Do you put John Bolton in that category?


10 posted on 08/15/2016 8:10:20 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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>>>Elitist netherworld poltroons who wouldn’t know drive by America if they tripped over it

Good observation. American foreign policy experts are out of touch elitists who do not understand ordinary Americans. How can they understand foreigners, if they do not even understand their own people.


11 posted on 08/15/2016 8:13:23 AM PDT by pinochet
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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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No, not really. Primarily because he has endorsed Donald Trump. Regardless his is a ‘singularity’ among many, many plurals not worth the spit to summon up a loogie.


13 posted on 08/15/2016 8:14:38 AM PDT by Gaffer
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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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“Foreign policy “experts”, and the State Department, seem to be dominated by Ivy League types, and thus cultural Marxists.”

Only the ones we here from. I’ve worked alongside hundreds... and if not thousands of analysts and they have their heads on right.

They just don’t appear on the news. It’s the people that appear on the news that make you think that no one knows what’s going on.

There are Analysts who can rattle off all of the family acquaintances of obscure Kuwaiti emirs, and can tell you where they live, what they do for a living, how they react to things, etc.

We know foreign policy, and we know the global playing field. You just don’t see those people.


18 posted on 08/15/2016 8:25:30 AM PDT by Celerity
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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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