Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.
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Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.
There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.
My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.
Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.
I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.
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