{"id":15821,"date":"2012-09-14T13:19:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15821"},"modified":"2012-09-14T13:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:19:19","slug":"foreign-policy-does-matter-in-this-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15821\/foreign-policy-does-matter-in-this-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy Does Matter in This Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/45-foreign-policy\/1539-will-foreign-policy-still-matter-in-the-presidential-race\" target=\"_blank\">Troy\u2019s column<\/a> asked \u201cWill Foreign Policy Still Matter in the Presidential Election?\u201d\u00a0 At the time, Mitt Romney had just picked Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, and all eyes were on domestic issues like the economy and entitlement reform.<\/p>\n<p>But as ever, Troy saw the big picture by reminding us that, \u201cIf recent years have taught us anything, it\u2019s that the issues on which a presidential election are fought can be poor predictors of the ones that dominate the subsequent presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 9\/11 attacks remain the paradigmatic example.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with Islamist attacks on American diplomatic outposts spreading beyond Libya and Egypt to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/protesters-storm-us-embassy-yemen \" target=\"_blank\">Yemen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/14\/film-protests-sudan-idUSL5E8KEE5X20120914?type=marketsNews \" target=\"_blank\">Sudan<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/tunisiaNews\/idAFL5E8KEHJ920120914 \" target=\"_blank\">Tunisia<\/a>, American foreign policy \u2013 and each presidential candidate\u2019s view of it \u2013 is getting a workout.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago Troy\u2019s column asked \u201cWill Foreign Policy Still Matter in the Presidential Election?\u201d\u00a0 At the time, Mitt Romney had just picked Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, and all eyes were on domestic issues like the economy and entitlement reform. But as ever, Troy saw the big picture by reminding us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,143,1193,2026,3816,216,1125,160],"class_list":["post-15821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-election","tag-embassy","tag-foreign-policy","tag-middle-east","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15825,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions\/15825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}