Jonathan Bernstein is startled by the lack of substantive foreign policy back and forth at the Republican debates:
It may be that GOP primary voters think the 2012 election will be won or lost on domestic issues alone, and won’t end up pinning down the candidates on foreign policy in any meaningful sense. This is is a pretty remarkable turnaround, given how central foreign policy was for the GOP candidates in the last two presidential elections, and given that the United States is still involved in multiple wars abroad. And it will certainly be disappointing to the dwindling group of conservative writers and foreign policy wonks who are hoping that the GOP nominees will pledge to revive Bush’s national security policies — something Mitt Romney and Rick Perry have been largely unwilling to do.
They have been pretty clear about this.
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