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Herman Cain seems to like to keep things simple, even when it comes to oftentimes complex and nuanced international relations.
Looking to quiet critics of his foreign policy credentials and convince the American electorate he has what it takes to be the leader of the free world, the candidate drew the line in the sand with a special map on his website; you're basically either a friend, or you aren't.
In "Cain's Vision For Foreign Policy and National Security," the oversimplified graph outlines our country's relations with brief label and accompanying description. For instance, the United Kingdom is labeled "Our Special Relationship," Russia is flagged as a "rival" and Israel is listed as a "friend and ally." The highlighted blue map showing "the density of Facebook connections around the world" is somehow supposed to show "how entrepreneurship and freedom can light the world with friendship," the caption explains.
Earlier in the day, the site also included a geographic mistake forgivable only for elementary school children, listing the U.K., Germany and Russia under its "Americas" section. The error was later corrected.
Considering Cain's recent allegations of a 13-year affair, his "vision" is probably the least of his worries right now.
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I believe that Cain has plagiarized once again. This seems to be lifted from a Mad magazine article on GI Joe and his multi-national action figures who were related friend or foe. The exception is that Mad took into account history, did not ignore Europe, most of Africa and did not eschew political ambiguity. Another Cain fail.
Truly astounding.
OK.
That map is scary.
There are a few hundred ambassadors and a few thousand offices. Each has security, intelligence officers, and diplomatic staff (clerical, teachers, IT, social workers, ...). They become involved in classified diplomacy, state functions, when travelers get in trouble, and so on.
Hillary has to know all the ambassadors by name, and Pres. Obama has to know the important ones (UN, EU, ...).
Cain is in cartoon world.
Herman Cain never thought his campaign would get anywhere, that's why he was never concerned with any of this being exposed by the media. Cain simply wanted to sell more books and up his speaking fees.
Cain's campaign can be explained only by two possible scenarios. One is, he's extremely arrogant and thought a man with no public sector experience or knowledge of foreign policy, a man with an absurd tax plan and no real jobs plan, a man with a turbulent past, could actually successfully run for office. The other is he thought he'd be just a marginal candidate and exposure to the media would help him with his book and motivational speaking.
In either case, the guy's a joke.
As if anyone needed further evidence that Hermy is a flaming dolt.
You are either with us or against us. Hmm, sounds alot like Bush's foreign policy to me
idiocracy
I was just reading through the descriptions on Mr. Cain's website, and frankly, as a Canadian, I take offense in Mr. Cain pretending that Canada was an ally in the war in Iraq. If Mr.Cain gets a full page (single or double spaced?) of briefing on foreign policy "almost every day", I suggest he gets advisors with a high school diploma to write it. This statement is up there with Ann Coulter swearing that we participated in the Vietnam war along with the US.
I understand Canada is not high on the list of "hotspots" for I.R., but a little respect to your direct neighbours wouldn't hurt... And we probably are the single easiest country to understand from an American perspective.
You bet! I love Canada!
The Guy is delusional! He stated in his little farewell speech that “To become President of the US, you don't need a degree from Harvard”. Granted, but his foreign policy flubs such as referring to Uzbekistan as “Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan “ and answering most questions by saying 9-9-9-, has demonstrated that the man is more equipped to talk pepperoni pizza than policy. Not to mention the skeleton in his closet! The people who donated to his campaign should get a refund!