The Election, the Presidency and Foreign Policy

While Friedman is always worth reading he gives Obama too much credit for having a coherent foreign policy vision. The views he attributes to Obama are closer to Ron Paul’s. At this point in time we need one vision and that is to reform Washington so that the economy can grow robustly and our external debt shrink. Romney may have no foreign policy vision either, but he has said that a strong economy is fundamental. For starters that is enough. Once the economy is pointed in the right direction, we need a coherent vision of US interests as Asia grows more powerful, the Islamic world flounders and Europe sorts itself out. Of course if Obama is reelected, there will not be an economy to sustain a vision if there were one.