09-08-2016, 03:08 PM
Foreign policy is an essential area for the President. Aleppo is of course a war zone in Syria, and someone running for President who does not know that fails on that matter.
But Donald Trump has about everything wrong on foreign policy, anyway. I would never have expected to have gone to the right of the Republican nominee for President without having become a reactionary on any issue. That says a lot about Donald Trump.
In any event the default for American foreign policy is practically that of Ronald Reagan (and Obama's foreign policy is practically what Ronald Reagan got away with); it's now hard to see, except that anti-Communism has become moot, between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Whether one likes Reagan foreign policy or not, Hillary Clinton has been riding it... and it is all that is now available as a sensible foreign policy. Hillary Clinton now owns Obama foreign policy for better or worse -- and at this stage, clearly to the benefit of her campaign. It is now practically inconceivable that the foreign policy of Barack Obama can fail before the middle of November.
On foreign policy, Hillary Clinton can hit Donald Trump from the Right.
But Donald Trump has about everything wrong on foreign policy, anyway. I would never have expected to have gone to the right of the Republican nominee for President without having become a reactionary on any issue. That says a lot about Donald Trump.
In any event the default for American foreign policy is practically that of Ronald Reagan (and Obama's foreign policy is practically what Ronald Reagan got away with); it's now hard to see, except that anti-Communism has become moot, between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Whether one likes Reagan foreign policy or not, Hillary Clinton has been riding it... and it is all that is now available as a sensible foreign policy. Hillary Clinton now owns Obama foreign policy for better or worse -- and at this stage, clearly to the benefit of her campaign. It is now practically inconceivable that the foreign policy of Barack Obama can fail before the middle of November.
On foreign policy, Hillary Clinton can hit Donald Trump from the Right.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.