Lets be honest about foreign policy and Presidents and Candidates

[SW48]

Lets be honest you can't win with foreign policy. Its damned if you do and damned if you don't.

You are going to piss off someone with every foreign policy decision you make.

So foreign policy is an F for all presidents and all candidates as you never know at the time you do something and may not know whether it worked for years afterwards. And the answer depends on who you are and where you live.

So there are two foreign policy grades. Did you put us in a war? Did foreign countries get nuclear weapons?

Its tiresome hearing about Bush this and Hillary that and Obama this about foreign policy. Its a no win situation. You cannot be right on foreign policy.

 

[Dawg]

Foreign policy is for the cabinet or SOS (maybe) not the President.........as Governor what foreign policy did Bush have (slim-pickin's IMO) and Θ as freshmen Senator........NONE

 

[Mr. Friscus]

Lets be honest you can't win with foreign policy. Its damned if you do and damned if you don't.

You are going to piss off someone with every foreign policy decision you make.

So foreign policy is an F for all presidents and all candidates as you never know at the time you do something and may not know whether it worked for years afterwards. And the answer depends on who you are and where you live.

So there are two foreign policy grades. Did you put us in a war? Did foreign countries get nuclear weapons?

Its tiresome hearing about Bush this and Hillary that and Obama this about foreign policy. Its a no win situation. You cannot be right on foreign policy.

Agreed.

I happen to think different strategies are needed for different circumstances.

Suppose Barack Obama was in the Whitehouse in the 80's, competing with Soviet Russia for arms and societal supremacy? I think we might not have won, or it would have dragged on far longer. We needed Reagan's aggressiveness, his absolute rhetoric. Academia was appalled at his "Evil Empire" line. But yes, "Tear down this wall".

As for now, it feels like we need another hard-hammer kind of person to come in and actually set standards instead of doing the bob-and-weave like Obama has. I'm not saying Obama has been a 100% failure in the department, but he's been horrible as far as foreign policy goes.