If you're feeling generous, you can lump climate change in with "foreign policy," (which sort of makes sense) and hope they're going to get to it in the last debate.
Already, Mr. Ishihara conducts his own parallel foreign policy of sorts, for example mischievously inviting the Dalai Lama and the departing president of Taiwan to Tokyo, drawing stern warnings from China.
This is another way of describing an activist, interventionist foreign policy of the sort that a great imperial power pursues to protect its interests and nip opposition in the bud.
To assert that the EU needs Turkey more than the other way round sets the wrong tone, making it sound as though the supplicant is Brussels, not Ankara.Second, an enterprising foreign policy of the sort that Mr Davutoglu is pursuing can jar with the EU's own policy.
The White House's proposed remedy, namely military tribunals, merely compounds the problem.When Mr Bush decided to frame his foreign policy in the sort of language and objectives previously associated with Woodrow Wilson, John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan, he was bound to be greeted with cynicism.
The rest of the world is watching with consternation the transformation of the U.S. foreign policy into some sort of promotion of U.S. commercial interests around the world.
I came away from the debate, which was devoted to foreign policy, with all sorts of qualms and questions, including why Newt Gingrich has submitted to an electoral process he feels such palpable condescension toward.
Behind domestic policy no less than foreign policy sits the same sort of questions: is Mr Bush merely a short-term opportunist, cutting taxes when he can, just as he is often accused of disposing of treaties at will?
He accurately painted McCain as a joke of an intellect on economic questions, and (again, subtly, but clearly) on foreign policy, he described a sort of crazy person whose experience has not given him superior judgment at all.
Kissinger is a sort of talisman, not for the sort of foreign policy America would like to have, and sometimes attempts – the idealism of a Woodrow Wilson or a Jimmy Carter – but the kind that they believe America has to have, hard-headed and realistic.
