This is another of my clean out the inbox efforts necessitated by my trip.

This is an intellectual assessment of the first McCain-Obama debate by a foreign policy expert who (according to the liner notes on the article) "is the Robert A. Taft Fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance. He is a former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, and the author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire (Xulon)."

The article reads in part, "During the cold war, Republicans earned the reputation of being more serious than Democrats on foreign policy. The stereotype didn’t always hold true, but the American people preferred to trust their nation’s safety to the GOP. However, over the last eight years the Republican Party has squandered its reputation. The results of the Bush administration’s policies have ranged from failure to disaster. Although the right continues to try to live off of its cold war reputation, since 2000 the Republican Party. . ."

Read the rest of the article at this link.

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=19958