by Jacob G. Hornberger
The last Republican presidential debate ? the one on foreign policy ? was absolutely pathetic. Except for John Huntsman and Ron Paul, the candidates seemed to be fighting to show that they would be bigger and better torturers, aggressors, and assassins than President Obama.
While the dismal state of the economy is likely to hurt Obama?s chances at reelection, he has clearly outmaneuvered the Republicans by embracing their foreign-policy views. After all, I think most everyone would agree that on foreign policy, Obama?s first term is nothing more than George W. Bush?s third term.
The problem is that if Romney, Cain, Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, or Bachmann were to be elected president, their term would be Obama?s second term, given that they all share the same perspectives on foreign policy, militarism, civil liberties, the war on terrorism.
So, given that they hold the same basic foreign policy views as Obama, the problem that Romney, Cain, Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, and Bachmann have is to convince people why they should vote for one of them rather than Obama. Obviously, when it comes to foreign policy, they feel that their best chance is to show people that they would be bigger invaders, occupiers, imposers of sanctions and embargoes, assassins, and torturers than Obama.
That?s what running for president has come to in the United States of America.
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