So the general election fights have started with McCain and Obama shooting back and forth on foreign policy and which one is naive. The Republicans and various pundits have been calling Obama naive for a long time. So I largely skip it, having already burned out on this election and all candidates.
A little further in the news there is an article on Bush visiting with King Abdullah at his ranch in Saudi Arabia and it mentions how the Saudi's used to be allies and are still considered as such, but they really don't like Bush Jr and aren't about to go out of their way to help him, even if they could. And even further on, in an article on starving people in Somalia, there is a mention of how Bush announced there were Al Qaeda hiding in Somalia and went after said terrorists with airstrikes in some of the most parched areas of the country. Now Somalis are so ticked at the United States, we can't even go in to help them. Western aid workers are being killed. Threats are issued. Etc.
If those little tidbits of foreign policy are examples of not naive, I'm beginning to think naive is the way to go.
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