Posted on 11/03/2011 12:36:48 PM PDT by presidio9
Cain is perfectly aware that China has nuclear capability. From an article he wrote about China (and Communism) in 2005:
“The U.S. should be less concerned about China’s economic potential than by the military threat it poses. Three Chinese spies were recently indicted in the U.S. for conspiring to steal numerous naval warship technologies. This summer China and Russia participated in a week-long joint military exercise. China’s build up of nuclear, military and space technologies to rival the U.S., and its saber-rattling over Taiwan’s independence, signals a commitment to more red, not green.”
http://www.economicfreedomcoalition.com/news/press-opinion-120305.asp
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Foreign policy is key in a Presidential candidate.
That’s the way our constitutional republic is set up.
I haven’t heard Cain in any extensive foreign policy speech.
You can’t fake it if you are President. You are the USA — its representative.
You have to have some background in the different factions,
shiites etc. in Iraq, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Asia (Australia, Japan,
south korea), the Israeli-Palestinian history and outlook, China
You need some kind of vision as well. What is your foreign policy priority if you are President?
Now of course there are world events that happen.
But as a voter I’d like to know that my presidential candidate has foreign
affairs background and vision. He or She can’t wait to “study” or rely on
experts if Israel decides to attack Iran January 2013. Or if China invades
Taiwan.
I don’t see anything with Cain right now. Nothing. Zero. No Progress.
No intellectual curiosity.
I will wait for AEI debate though.
Why do people give money to tele-evangelists? True believers are not easily swayed away from somebody they’ve put all their faith and hope into and tells them all the things they want to hear. No surprise here.
Palin did not tell Couric that she knew about foreign policy because of Alaska’s proximity to Russia. She did say something like that to Charlie Gibson. But as the unedited script shows (it was cut out for the interview), it was in response to a suggestion from Gibson. Palin did not hurt McCain; he was the author of his own misfortune. Exit interviews showed that for thos for whom the VP choice was important voted 58%/42% for McCain/Palin.
Palin did not tell Couric that she knew about foreign policy because of Alaska’s proximity to Russia. She did say something like that to Charlie Gibson. But as the unedited script shows (it was cut out for the interview), it was in response to a suggestion from Gibson. Palin did not hurt McCain; he was the author of his own misfortune. Exit interviews showed that for thos for whom the VP choice was important voted 58%/42% for McCain/Palin.
Aside from Newt, there are no foreign policy people in this race. Face it, the public has their eggs in one basket: the economy.
McCain was just around so damned long he had more background in foreign affairs, which I agree was overly touted by him. The best thing a candidate can do is know the basics, don’t get drawn into places where that inexperience is so glaring. Cain wandered around on the China nuclear thing and gave an opening to the “he doesn’t even know...” about China. Notice that Romney and Gingrich don’t leave these kind of openings.
I think that cult of foreign policy as a field requiring deep ‘expertise’, is silly mysticism that has it’s roots in European treachery. All an American president needs is an unshakable belief that America comes first,, period. Next, we are not going to involve ourselves in cheating and lies. PT Barnum’s honest man was the one you can’t cheat. Last, we should be a friend to all who will deal with us honestly, and stay away from the liars.
This vaunted expertise only becomes important when the president wishes to deceive the world and the American people of what he is actually doing.
America should not act like europe. Anyone who elects to deal
with us should know that there IS no hidden plan. This assures friends, and even makes enemies less dangerous.
If you neighborhood cop is meticulously fair and honest, it scares the shady, and warms the honest. But if he is corrupt, criminals are emboldened and always searching for ways to involve him in deeper and deeper corruptions. The good people will not become involved with him.
The foreign policy experts need it to be complicated. Honesty is simple. It’s time American foreign policy is Barnum’s honest man.
Cain is picking up new support from people who have had it with the MSM, scummy professional office holders and whiney feminazis.
True. what a shame.
Before you give the keys to the best military and give responsibility
for our volunteer soldiers’s lives to this person, I would hope it would
be after a sober extensive debate.
WHy surge in Afghanistan when you are going to pull out due to a
strict political timetable?
Will they intervene in Libya? What is the security interest of Uganda to US?
What about Syria?
Anyone with a little comprehension of English could see that he meant nuclear aircraft carriers from the context of his remarks.
hello ,,, Hey, you get citizenship yet?
The real problem here is the lamestream media (liberal and conservative) think they are king makers. If someone comes along with plans that don’t fit their idea of status quo, they have to nitpick away until they destroy the candidate.
The gotcha crowd will ask the outsider questions they would never ask their chosen ones. THAT is the most flustrating part about all of this, and what they did to Sarah Palin.
In Sarah’s case, there are people still out there still quoting things Tina Fey said as if they came from Sarah. I run into people like that all the time.
On Boortz the other day, Jamie Dupree said Politico was perceived as a conservative organization. That’s not what I thought. Today, Rush said Politico came from the Washington Post so they could say things the Post couldn’t print. Politico’s journalists? came from the Washington Post.
There should be a Occupy Media movement.
and ALL of your foreign policy dilemma’s are easily solved by a man who will ask what is in it for America, and will not engage in dishonesty. For example, such a man might think it’s disgusting to have our Marines being ordered to protect fields of opium poppies in Afghanistan.
How's your GED coming along?
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