His foreign policy views are hawkish to the point of folly, but he isn't competing for the Ron Paul/Jon Huntsman slice of the G.O.P. electorate, and this isn't a foreign policy election anyway.
This would be a foreign policy election, wags opined, and the candidates all sharpened their rhetoric accordingly.
This was not a foreign policy election.
This is not, of course, a foreign-policy election, but voters want a threshold level of competence and judgment.
They have hit upon the brilliant strategy of pushing any serious discussion of the failure of American foreign policy past Election Day.
In April 2010, the day of the party leaders' foreign policy TV election debate, Britain's two biggest-selling dailies, the Sun and Daily Mail, published a total of three international news stories, adding up to 257 words.
On foreign policy, this election is about Clinton uniting the Hamiltonians and Wilsonians, the Jacksonians finding their savior in Trump, and the Jeffersonians pulling their hair out in despair.
Mr Reinfeldt may have long-term hopes to bring Sweden into NATO and the euro, but his immediate agenda is topped by the mundane matter of employment, not foreign policy.The election was closely fought and dirty, with plenty of mud-slinging on both sides.
Signed Comment about the "Iran-Bosnia scandal" and foreign policy in election years... Hypocrisy may be the mother's milk of politics, but there are occasions--the controversy now being manufactured in Congress over "secret" Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia is one--when the glass runs over.
By Mark Danner The New Yorker, May 13 , 1996P. 7 Signed Comment about the "Iran-Bosnia scandal" and foreign policy in election years... Hypocrisy may be the mother's milk of politics, but there are occasions--the controversy now being manufactured in Congress over "secret" Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia is one--when the glass runs over.
The New Yorker, May 13 , 1996P. 7 Signed Comment about the "Iran-Bosnia scandal" and foreign policy in election years... Hypocrisy may be the mother's milk of politics, but there are occasions--the controversy now being manufactured in Congress over "secret" Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia is one--when the glass runs over.
