The coming foreign policy election
It's past Labor Day in a midterm election year, which means we've reached the point when chaired foreign policy professors at our finest universities are urgently summoned by governors and junior senators eyeing the presidency so they can answer all kinds of questions like "What is ISIS?" and "Where is Gaza?" and "Is it true the Soviet Union no longer exists?"
According to The New York Times, Chris Christie is getting tutorials after causing a minor calamity by using the term "occupied territories" in a speech. (What's he supposed to know about Jewish voters? He's only the governor of New Jersey.) Rick Perry's been boning up on the various terrorist groups, too, which is impressive for a guy who struggled so mightily to remember the Energy Department.
All of which would be unremarkable, except that with a series of crises – Islamist nihilists and Russian invaders among them – fast building toward a crescendo, it's suddenly looking more as if 2016 could be the first real foreign policy election in 12 years. And in an interesting way, that could mean a collision between two powerful currents in American politics: the desire for an outsider who will disrupt the system, on one hand, and the hope for a steady, sure-handed leader on the other. ...
(1) Open-borders black-pandering Rand is an example of the "libertarian right"? (2) "Clinton ... might be reassuring to the broad swath of American voters who don't scream 'Benghazi!' in their sleep." All things the Left doesn't want to discuss, it considers right-wing obsessions; (3) The importance of foreign policy will no doubt be stressed by the Multicultural Marxist media outlets who each election try to propagandize that voters no longer care about border enforcement--when that is THE most important national defense, economic and environmental issue.
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