Rouhani was elected thanks to the support of millions of voters who trusted his promises to release political prisoners and implement a foreign policy that would end the sanctions.
In an era of fiscal restraint, U.S. policy makers should implement a foreign policy guided by opportunity rather than threat, and align its resources accordingly.
Left with the financial and ideological results of our preemptive attack on and invasion of Iraq and the winding down of our war in Afghanistan, Obama has had to develop and implement a foreign policy limiting Iran's nuclear ambitions and safeguarding America from the maniacal, ideologically driven violence of ISIS.
And implementing a militarized foreign policy requires a large standing military to police the world.
As chancellor, Hitler had already started implementing an aggressive foreign policy and a campaign of oppression against the Jewish population, beginning with a call for a boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933.
Given that Turkey's relations with the EU have been deteriorating for some time now, is Erdoğan planning to start implementing an active foreign policy focussed on the East rather than the West?
Or President Trump could implement a Neocon foreign policy without Neocons.
With administrations coming and going every nine or ten months, there was never time to draw up a foreign policy, let alone implement one.
Whatever happens to Trump, he has in my mind laid out a foreign policy that is likely to be implemented by some future president, if not himself.
