When will important people in New York and Washington notice that 65% of Republican voters in the Iowa caucus chose candidates who opposed both the Wall Street bailout and Bush/Obama adventurism abroad (Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul), and about 50% of Democrats (Bernie’s army) did the same? It’s easy to dismiss all four…
Tag: foreign policy follies
Ryan Crocker: the silence of a wise man
Ryan Crocker, retiring U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and former ambassador to Iraq, where he presided over President Bush’s “surge,” might have a few interesting things to say about U.S. foreign policy in the post 9/11 decade. And, in a recent interview in the New York Times, he does, if “vague and cautious” means the same…