"I'm optimistic that as our economy improves, as our foreign policy situation improves, that we're going to have a different attitude in the Senate.
It is right for Mr. Bush to question the assumption that American military power has to be "the answer to every difficult foreign policy situation".
And when Mr. Bush called for a "distinctly American internationalism" in a major foreign policy speech last year, he said that while America must be involved in the world, "that does not mean our military is the answer to every difficult foreign policy situation -- a substitute for strategy".
* Obama "inherited the worst foreign policy situation that any new president has ever taken on".
There are some reasons why Russia might want to keep Crimea in Ukraine — doing so vastly complicates Ukraine's foreign policy situation and would effectively block Ukrainian membership in NATO, so the complete annexation of Crimea isn't a foregone conclusion.
But Pakistan is probably one of the worst foreign-policy situations right now, because we didn't get it right the first time.
"It's hard to imagine any foreign-policy situations where all the actors are going to get together and agree, 'Yes, that imagery is not going to be disseminated.' " In military terms, of course, it's been decades since any nation could count on real security from the prying eyes of foes.
He said he no longer believed, as he had told me over the summer, that Rand was one of the three candidates most likely to win the Republican nomination in 2016, because "the foreign-policy situation is such a wild card".
For India, which has been sometimes criticized for an ostrich-like "non-alignment" approach to foreign policy, the situation represents an unusually sophisticated balancing act.
There were discussions on foreign policy, including the situation in Afghanistan, and the parliamentary timetable.
According to Pew Research Center polls, the public is evenly divided over which party can do a better job of handling foreign policy, the job situation, Social Security reform, health care reform and many other issues.
