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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Is that license unqualified? How far can they go?
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This is going to cause an explosion, but I think every President from Eisenhower to W., including Clinton, knew what they were doing when it came to foreign policy. The only exception was Carter (and maybe Johnson in the later years of Vietnam). I think almost every decision they made, from the perspective of the time when they made it, made sense. They all made mistakes, but I think the decisions that led to the mistakes were well thought out and just turned out to be wrong. I think they had the countries best interest in mind and were bright practical people. On the other hand, every time Congress has gotten involved in Foreign policy they have just botched it up. They have just done stupid things, that would lead to obvious disasters: Limiting the funds to Korea, cutting off funds to South Vietnam in 1974, cutting off funds to the Contras etc. Therefore, you don't want to hear my answer.
