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chevydog1 year, 7 months ago

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I would observe that foreign policy is new to almost every president we elect. In my lifetime, Eisenhower and Nixon had some; maybe Bush I. Everyone else was pathetically unprepared.

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  Charlson1 year, 7 months ago
  
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  Unprepared is one thing, but ignorance is no excuse.
  
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    chevydog1 year, 7 months ago
    
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    Is there really a diffference between unprepared and ignorant?
    From Josh Billings (I think): "It's not what a man don't know that makes him ignorant. It's what he knows that ain't so."
    IMHO, Mr. Bush is an intellectual featherweight who's worked very hard to get and stay that way. I see McCain in a little different light, as one who might be able and willing to learn. Not perhaps the be-all and end-all, but suitable. Certainly don't see him as a warmonger. Tend to think that his personal experince would make him less so than average. Among the Dems, only Hillary can make a halfway palusible claim to any foreign policy background. So as usually is the case we'll end up with a Pres who has to learn on the job. The best we can hope for is intellectual flexibility.
    
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  donald511 year, 7 months ago
  
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  Reading the 1959 Lederer book, The Ugly American, should be manditory for anyone in the federal government!
  Cheney has experience and look how he still lies about Sadam's WMD and Al Qaeda links! We need integrity restored to the governemt and the fairness Doctrine that Repugs fight would surely be a step in the right direction!
  Dems need to also be willing to impeach elected officials who lie and commit US forces to needless wars. Only Repug led congresses have tried to impeach in our history.
  
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  donald511 year, 7 months ago
  
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  Final note: a pres doesn't have to have foreign experience as long as he surrounds himself with good experienced people and actually listens to them before making a critical decision. Remember that Dumya takes his guidance from a higher source... he just needs some one to tell him where Kosovo is! Condi's failure to think a brief titled "OBL Determined to Attack Inside the USA" actually required some followup!
  
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