seen. does this mean there s a real ideological commitment to the neo conservative foreign policy values on behalf of these republican candidates? or is this just kind of a fear tactic that s employed in the context of a campaign. in other words, should i be actually afraid or should i just be irritated by this? it s a little bit of both. the fact is that old style nixonian was about cost benefits. we re at an age where anger and sentiment and trying to do good and striking back are now the terms that drive foreign policy. so what you see is a little bit of fear mongering that we learned from dick cheney that works well in the political playbook, combined with what i think is something happening in both the democratic party and the republican party, a sense that you have to change the way that the inside workings of other states operate if they are seen to be a threat to the
i d say jon huntsman is a bit different. the henry kissinger, richard lugar, the chuck kagel wing of the republican foreign policy establishment is basically an endangered species. you ve seen the neo cons failing in some of their policies but have done a brilliant job of taking over and it being very, very strong in the major think tank institutions in washington, d.c. that is the crowd that basically sets the terms, if you will, for foreign policy debates now. so you re framing this as a kind of lack within the current republican party of this particular sort of republican statesman model that we ve once seen. does this mean there s a real ideological commitment to the neo conservative foreign policy values on behalf of these republican candidates? or is this just kind of a fear tactic that s employed in the context of a campaign.
statesman model that we ve once seen. does this mean there s a real ideological commitment to the neo conservative foreign policy values on behalf of these republican candidates? or is this just kind of a fear tactic that s employed in the context of a campaign. in other words, should i be actually afraid or should i just be irritated by this? it s a little bit of both. the fact is that old style nixonian was about cost benefits. we re at an age where anger and sentiment and trying to do good and striking back are now the terms that drive foreign policy. so what you see is a little bit of fear mongering that we learned from dick cheney that works well in the political playbook, combined with what i think is something happening in both the democratic party and the republican party, a sense that you have to change the way that the inside workings of