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Santorum’s Foreign Policy Ignores the Major Powers and Most of the World

Ackerman notes that Santorum is the foreign policy hard-liner in the field (via Andrew). That’s quite a distinction when you have Gingrich and Huntsman trying to outdo one another in how each thinks the U.S. should try to overthrow the Iranian government, but it’s true as far as it goes. Something else that I noticed […]

Ackerman notes that Santorum is the foreign policy hard-liner in the field (via Andrew). That’s quite a distinction when you have Gingrich and Huntsman trying to outdo one another in how each thinks the U.S. should try to overthrow the Iranian government, but it’s true as far as it goes. Something else that I noticed when looking through the review of his positions that Foreign Policy put together is how very narrowly focused almost all of it is on the Near East and Afghanistan/Pakistan.

Aside from his occasional warnings about the dangers of Chavismo, which he always links to his obsession with Iran anyway, he has virtually nothing to say about any other foreign policy issues. One searches in vain for any views on Russia and NATO after he left the Senate. His “Gathering Storm” archives are no help, since many of the entries on the “enemies” are just listings of things that the governments have been doing. Their hostility has already been established, as Santorum has included them on the “enemy roundup,” so I suppose it goes without saying that he doesn’t see any possibility of constructive relationships with Russia or China. As I said in my column this morning, “Santorum’s campaign rhetoric reads as if it were a caricature of neoconservatism.”

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