12-03-2016, 08:45 AM
(12-03-2016, 07:21 AM)Dill Wrote: No idea what the bolded words refer to. And the dramatic shifts in foreign policy I listed hardly prove your point that "foreign policy is the purview of staffers" and "95% of foreign policy is the same no matter who gets elected." You think "staffers" brought Sadat and Begin together and then let Carter in on the deal?
What makes you think "dramatic" shifts in policy weren't driven by career staffers? Do you really think they don't have A, B and C (and D, E, and F) scenarios? Do you honestly think the Wolfwitz doctrine was borne in a vacuum?
Do you honestly think the POTUSes are so narcissitic and vain that they don't heavily weigh the advice of people who have lived and breathed these issues for decades? Do you not understand how ineffective and feckless foreign policy would be if it was unpredictable and nonsensical every 4-8 years with a new POTUS?
Obama himself said it's different when you're actually sitting in the chair - what does that mean to you?
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