2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Xiahou]

Moral of the story? People suck, you can either live with them or kill them. You can't pretend to do one while doing the other. Anti-Americanism is a problem entirely of our own making. The solution is simply to stop meddling, stop lying, and stop validating their fears.

Has US foreign policy contributed to Anti-Americanism? Sure. Is it entirely responsible for it? No way. That view is overly simplistic and dangerous.

*And by the way, naive? If Obama's foreign policy is naive, what was Bush Jr's?

Yes, naive. Naive as in thinking that handing a plastic "Reset" button to Sergey Lavrov and abandoning missile defense plans would make Russia an ally. Or naive, in thinking that giving a speech in Cairo trumpeting a "new beginning" of "mutual respect" would yield either....

[Kralizec]

Has US foreign policy contributed to Anti-Americanism? Sure. Is it entirely responsible for it? No way. That view is overly simplistic and dangerous.

Yes, naive. Naive as in thinking that handing a plastic "Reset" button to Sergey Lavrov and abandoning missile defense plans would make Russia an ally. Or naive, in thinking that giving a speech in Cairo trumpeting a "new beginning" of "mutual respect" would yield either....

Those are touching, feel-good statements largely for the benefit of other countries that shouldn't be confused as being anything else.