12-03-2016, 03:22 AM
(12-03-2016, 03:16 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: We've been over this.
Foreign policy is mostly the purview of career staffers. The only levers the POTUS pulls is on the margin - go faster or slower, angle left or right....but mainly to tell the public whether or not there is an iceberg ahead, and who/what/why to blame if we happen to hit it (if that's even the official story). And if our foreign policy didn't have this consistency, where would we get if people could just wait out the administration over 4-8 years?
You just don't come in to deny and ignore someone on the Israel/Palestine issue, for example, who has studied and debated it for 30 years.
Barring egomaniacal sociopaths, I just think that 95% of foreign policy is the same regardless of who gets elected. And the 5% difference is rarely significant (more "recognize Cuba" than "don't invade Iraq").
And that is my concern here.
