Ignorance about the World

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Clarissa

March 10, 2016

It’s widely thought in the foreign-policy community that Secretary Clinton’s views are more hawkish on foreign policy than those of the President she once served.

This “more hawkish” cliché that is repeated ad nauseam by the more intellectually limited among us simply means that Hillary is at least somewhat interested in what happens in the world unlike Obama who just wants the entirety of foreign affairs to go away and stop forcing him to have an opinion.

It is truly shameful how acceptable it is in this country to be egregiously ignorant about the world. People are even proud and ostentatious of their dumb refusal to find out anything about the rest of the planet. When a presidential candidate says the equivalent of “North Korea has made great advances in the art of gourmet cooking” and nobody has any comment to make about this insane statement on the next day, we’ve got nobody but ourselves to blame for a deranged foreign policy.

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13 responses to “Ignorance about the World”

Dreidel

March 10, 2016

“Obama who just wants the entirety of foreign affairs to go away and stop forcing him to have an opinion.”

Obama definitely has an opinion on America’s role in international affairs. Unfortunately, his opinion has had disastrous consequences for the world, from Ukraine to the Middle East to Asia:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/

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Stringer Bell

March 10, 2016

“This “more hawkish” cliché that is repeated ad nauseam by the more intellectually limited among us simply means that Hillary is at least somewhat interested in what happens in the world”

George W. Bush must’ve been very interested in what happens in the world, then. It’s finally starting to make sense why one of his nicknames was Curious George.

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 10, 2016
  
  This is an entirely non-partisan issue in American politics. The US foreign policy has sucked for decades, and the reason is that citizens are aggressively parochial, ignorant and indifferent.
  
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  1. Dreidel
    
    March 10, 2016
    
    Foreign policy in America is largely determined by the President — always has been.
    
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    1. Clarissa
      
      March 10, 2016
      
      The president gives the voters what they want. And when voters are dumb, they get a dumb foreign policy.
      
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Evelina Anville

March 10, 2016

Who said that “North Korea has made great advances in the art of gourmet cooking?” (I’m just curious.)

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 10, 2016
  
  Bernie Sanders said in a debate yesterday that Cuba made great advances in medicine and education.
  
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  1. Evelina Anville
    
    March 10, 2016
    
    So did anyone say anything about N. Korea and cooking? I’m sorry. I’m confused.
    
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    1. Clarissa
      
      March 10, 2016
      
      I’m making an analogy to transmit the stupidity of the comment about Cuba.
      
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thelyniezian

March 10, 2016

TBH if, as in the article linked, Iran has basically taken the international community’s good faith and as good as stamped on it, then applying sanctions again, far from being “more hawkish”, seems completely reasonable. At the same time this does not necessarily imply that there can be no reason for Iran to have some issues with Israel or that America has any business interfering in sabre-rattling between third parties (or indeed throwing its weight behind Israel), but I don’t suppose it should easily stand by lightly and brush aside such threats of violence.

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 10, 2016
  
  I agree completely with you. This is precisely why I’m annoyed with the knee-jerk response of “Hillary is hawkish ” without looking at what the situation actually is.
  
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  1. Dreidel
    
    March 10, 2016
    
    Hillary is hawkish — and that’s a COMPLIMENT!
    
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thelyniezian

March 10, 2016

(What I meant to say above is that America shouldn’t necessarily condone threats of violence.)

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