Heading into tonight’s debate, which will focus on foreign policy, Ruy Teixeira at the Center for American Progress posted a whirlwind of public opinion polling data on foreign policy issues.  The results are pretty surprising.  Some highlights:  83% of Americans think that “improving America’s standing in the world” is “very important”—more than the 80% and [...]

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While President Bush spoke at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Sarah Palin conducted back-to-back meetings with three foreign policy leaders across town.  The McCain campaign announced on Sunday that Palin would be meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, but on [...]

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Okay, so John McCain has had a couple of foreign policy gaffes on the campaign trail, most notably his inability to remember the difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and the fact that Czechoslovakia is no longer a country (and hasn’t been in over 15 years).
Sure, those aren’t the kind of mistakes you want your [...]

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The conflict between Russia and Georgia has been brewing in South Ossetia for a long time.  Though technically on Georgian soil, the region is a patchwork of Georgian and South Ossetian villages, and it is governed with near autonomy by a faction of South Ossetian separatists.  The stated goal of the South [...]

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These guarantees on Iraq pose much more of a threat to the Democrats’ chances in November than cracks at their lapel pins. Neither of the candidates can pretend to know what the best course of action will be in Iraq a year from now, and doing so only makes us question their credibility and common sense.

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