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The Foreign Policy Candidate

Started by washingtonindependent · 10 months ago

It is one of the ironies of this election year that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is likely to be the Democratic presidential nominee thanks in large part to his foreign policy — the area in which he had least experience and most vulnerabilities. The key to his campaign

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  • skulzfontaine

    1 year ago

    "Foreign policy?" Mr. Walker, you jest right? America certainly hasn't had 'foreign policy' for the last eight years and 'foreign policy' under President Bill 'is' Clinton remains dubious at best. That Balkans thingy certainly went well, didn't it? America under the Bush regime has had belligerence as policy and rendition as policy and detention as policy and torture as policy and insanity as policy and mercy, this listing could go on for some distance. But actual diplomatic foreign policy? Nah, there hasn't been any of that for a long time. Wait a minute, how about the Annapolis thingy? You know, where Bush gave Israel that tacit wink and a nod to rain bloody slaughter and genocide on Gaza? Oh right, that isn't foreign policy it's murder. Never mind! Nothing says "foreign policy" like apartheid and war crimes. Free Palestine and stop the Israeli brutality.
    respectfully,
    Skulz Fontaine
    Gaza Strip, Utah/Nevada
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