Today will be a short day for me and posts…..it is my day in the barrel with doctors (bend over and cough)……..please forgive my small number of posts today…..I will return with a vengeance tomorrow…..

I keep hearing in the media that this election coming up will be a foreign policy election……the nominee will be the person with the best answer for the dismal condition of American foreign policy……….Really?

I watch FOX (sometimes) especially when they have a international relations person on so I can hear what they have to say about the condition of the world……so far all I have heard is applause lines……..and NO solutions.  Hell some of the GOP cannot even answer if they would do Iraq all over again knowing what we know now…….that is a no brainer and apparently that is the candidates…..NO BRAINERS!

For instance…..Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida was asked about our trip into Iraq and was it an attempt to nation build…….his reply was classic……classic stupid!

RUBIO: The most immediate responsibility we have is to help them build a functional government that can actually meet the needs of their people in the short and the long term. And then ultimately, from that we would hope it would spring—

FOX NEWS HOST: That sounds like nation-building.

RUBIO: Well, it’s not nation-building. We are assisting them in building their nation. We have a vested interest in doing that.

And that nonsensical answer is one of the more intelligent answers that has been given by a GOP candidate…….

the heart of the Rubio foreign policy position: the neocon dream of nation-building works, just so long as you don’t call it nation-building and completely disregard all the very recent evidence of it not working.