June 13, 2008
Foreign Policy: A Campaign Primer
Presidential campaigns are usually eager to provide mind-numbingly detailed domestic-policy proposals. When it comes to foreign policy, however, campaigns often prefer to operate on the plane of generality and gesture.
In the absence of blueprints, journalists and tea-leaf readers scrutinize the foreign-policy advisers attached to each candidate: How many times last month did Barack Obama have lunch with Anthony Lake? How fast does John McCain return Robert Kagan's phone
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