There are a wealth of candidates to choose from in 2020….however the field is thinning down as the weeks roll by…..but so far I know all about their stands on medical stuff, on the climate and on the infrastructure. They all have signed on o the Green New Deal (more or less) but there is NO consensus on what the candidate will do with our tattered foreign policy.

So far the only candidate that I can point to as having a clear foreign policy stand is Tulsi Gabbard (to be upfront she is my candidate for now)…..but the rest of the field is unclear at best……

Foreign policy, the area where a president has the strongest and most unchecked hand to implement an agenda, hasn’t yet come up in this Democratic presidential campaign in a substantive way. In Miami, Detroit, and Houston, the loaded questions, often lobbed toward the end of the congested debate nights, hardly offered enough time to unpack the candidates’ policies. Tonight’s affair in Columbus, Ohio, probably won’t break the trend.

Because President Donald Trump has put so many international alliances and accords in jeopardy, it is incumbent on the Democratic field to explain to the American people the importance of restoring partnerships and rebuilding relationships with allies. Under Trump, the foundations have been rattled, including the very idea that foreign policy is conducted in consultation with country experts and diplomats on the ground. With American power so deeply undermined, there is a temptation to simply advocate for a return to what Democratic foreign policy was before 2016. But given the emergencies facing the country and the planet, there is opportunity for something bolder.

Nevertheless, some foreign-policy stalwarts want to flatten any debate before it begins. “The narrative that the Democratic Party is split over foreign policy—I don’t see strong evidence for that proposition,” Jake Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s chief foreign-policy adviser who before that served as national-security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, told me. “There is much more convergence rather than divergence in my view among the candidates, from Senators [Elizabeth] Warren and [Bernie] Sanders to the rest of the field, on the core elements.”

https://prospect.org/world/2020-foreign-policy-primary-sanders-warren-biden/

I am a foreign policy wonk and would lovem to see more on the subject in the debates even a debate that focuses on foreign policy….and I am not alone….

The one area any US president has the most control over isn’t tax policy or health care or even the economy.

It’s foreign policy. From launching nuclear weapons to pulling out of important international agreements to forging new alliances and trade deals, the US president often has nearly unchecked authority.

So you’d think more attention would be given to the 2020 presidential candidates’ views on foreign affairs. But so far, foreign policy has barely registered.

https://www.vox.com/2019/7/30/20732344/2019-democratic-presidential-debate-cnn-foreign-policy

We ask our service people to fight these endless wars…at least we can do as have each candidate explain their ideas on foreign policy….but instead we get platitudes to appease the slower of the listeners.

Further Reading:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/10/21/war-menu-2020-elections

Our foreign policy sector looks like a 3 stooges episode…..incoherent, disconnected and chaotic.

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