You may not get a lot of big things done, but there's going to be the debt limit, some foreign policy thing.
After some hard bargaining with provincial governors, the prospect of regions declaring total economic independence has receded, at least for now.In foreign policy too, things could be worse.
The essential problem is that every time Romney touches foreign policy, he breaks things.
But the biggest indictment of Mr Putin's regime has been not its meddling foreign policy, but the things it has done to many of its own citizens.
"Maybe Hu Jintao isn't unhappy to let Jiang Zemin play the foreign policy role, because things like Iraq and North Korea present very difficult quandaries for China," a Chinese expert on the Communist Party said.
To move from dynasty to legacy in foreign policy requires two things -- funding and political will.
When a majority of voters (no matter which club/party they belong to) are kept in the dark about the most basic aspects of our foreign policy -- the things EHMs and jackals do, the lies about weapons of mass destruction, and the detention of uncharged prisoners -- we can not claim to be informed.
British foreign policy is one thing, the question of resources, another.
