What do you think of Huckabee's thoughts on foreign policy copied and attached below?

Question

American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out. The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad. My administration will recognize that the United States' main fight today does not pit us against the world but pits the world against the terrorists. At the same time, my administration will never surrender any of our sovereignty, which is why I was the first presidential candidate to oppose ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty, which would endanger both our national security and our economic interests.

A more successful U.S. foreign policy needs to better explain Islamic jihadism to the American people. Given how Americans have thrived on diversity -- religious, ethnic, racial -- it takes an enormous leap of imagination to understand what Islamic terrorists are about, that they really do want to kill every last one of us and destroy civilization as we know it. If they are willing to kill their own children by letting them detonate suicide bombs, then they will also be willing to kill our children for their misguided cause. The Bush administration has never adequately explained the theology and ideology behind Islamic terrorism or convinced us of its ruthless fanaticism. The first rule of war is "know your enemy," and most Americans do not know theirs. To grasp the magnitude of the threat, we first have to understand what makes Islamic terrorists tick. Very few Americans are familiar with the writings of Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian radical executed in 1966, or the Muslim Brotherhood, whose call to active jihad influenced Osama bin Laden and the rise of al Qaeda. Qutb raged against the decadence and sin he saw around him and sought to restore the "pure" Islam of the seventh century through a theocratic caliphate without national borders. He saw nothing decadent or sinful in murdering in order to achieve that end. America's culture of life stands in stark contrast to the jihadists' culture of death.

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080101faessay87112/michael-d-huckabee/america-s-priorities-in-the-war-on-terror.html

Answer 1

He is the most realist on the issue than any other candidate. He is as right for us at this time in history as Reagan was for the 80's. He does not pander or follow lines, He is his own man. Truly believe we could be a very lucky country to have a leader of his standards. He is a class act.
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Many of my Democrat friends are planning as of now to vote for Huckabee, All pretty much say same thing, " He seems to be most honest of all running and even though they don't agree with all his policies, some they do and at least they know what they are getting for their vote." some even plan on re registering to vote in primaries for Huck.
I support Bush's presidency but you would have to be nuts to not think he had a bunker mentality when it came to communication. Reagan addressed the nation on EVERY issue. He explained why he believed what he believed after every decision. Bush doesn't even defend his policies, He just ignores the left wingers and leaves it up to us to defend them. Reagan's communication skills are what we need from our next leader.

Answer 2

This election seen like a joke,the Democrat against each other, and the Republic doing the same thing. Like children I am better then him,my religion is better,etc,etc,,
What about the people,I have not hear one of them speak about what they will do for us.
Who cares about the people oversea,what about the people here,the homeless,the helpless,the children.
I wish I had the education some have in those country. I am 44 years old with an learning disability,work at 9-5 jobs no hope for something better,two children and an husband that work so hard that his hand will give out soon. No medical in sight,
90% of American are hard worker,we are the working Poor.

Answer 3

It simply shws Huckabee shares the right-wing paranoia and agression typical of the right-wing.

For instance--the Law of the Sea Treaty has nothing to do with anyone's sovereignty--it simply establishes ground rules for development of natural resources that are in international waters.

And he makes it clear he does not really intend to change anything about Bush's foreign policy, which is based entirely on religious bigotry--specifically, his nonsense rhetoric that is intended to make Americans believe tha ta few sociopathic terrorists are some great jihad out to "destroy America." That's the same BS we've heard from Bush for years tha thas gotten thousands of Americans killed for nothing, not to mention the squandering of $2 Trillion.

Huckabee is an admitted bigot and religious fanatic. He is no better than the terrorists--the only difference between him and Osama is the label--the contents of the package are still hate, intolerance, and bigotry.

Answer 4

This is the guy trying to win the nomination by inciting more division between Christian denominations, right?

While the above sounds completely rational and he's right, Americans DON'T understand the distinctions between the fundamentalist extremists and the rest of Islam, I can't trust his babbling on either end. If he was all about the "peace through diplomacy" business, then why doesn't he conduct his own campaign that way regarding other Americans?

Answer 5

Typical of a politician. Attack the current administration, say what we "need" to do with no plan on how to do it. It is easy to say that the American public does not understand the mindset of the typical terrorist. Of course we don't, the very idea of blowing yourself up is so alien to us no matter how much "education" is provided it would still be out of our scope of reality. I think that he has it wrong on many accounts, the US needs to stop "opening up and reaching out" that is why we are in the current predicament that we are. The US has meddled too often into other countries business without proper cause or authority. If Bush had a "bunker" mentality then we wouldn't have gone into Iraq or Afghanistan.

Answer 6

Not naive at all regarding this US ally: "Every time we put our credit card in the gas pump, we're paying so that the Saudis get rich — filthy, obscenely rich, and that money then ends up going to funding madrassas," schools "that train the terrorists," said Huckabee. "America has allowed itself to become enslaved to Saudi oil. It's absurd. It's embarrassing." .

Answer 7

OK, fine. He can explain their religious ideology to us all he wants. The question is then, what is he going to do about it?

For example, I don't hear Huckleberry saying he's going to find Bin Laden.

I don't hear him saying he's going to start talks with the leaders of Iran in an effort to soften their foreign policy and get them to stop teaching their children, "Death to America" in their schools.

I don't hear him saying he's going to end torture as an American tactic because if we torture them they will feel more justified to torture us.

I don't hear him saying he's planning on doing ANYTHING differently than the way Bush did it. Therefore, his words are just blah-blah-blah---meaningless, impotent rhetoric.

He speaks yet says nothing. Blah-blah-blah.

Just what we need in the White House----another intellectually impotent Christian

Answer 8

All good stuff but it has more principles than policies. What to do about Johnny Russ, for example? And how can we save some money from our diplomacy and foreign aid budgets?

Answer 9

While him denouncing Bush's foreign policty is on target, his other views which are often combined with his religious affiliation makes him a very undesirable candidate.

Answer 10

I wouldn't believe anything Huckabee said unless Chuck Norris told me to believe it or else.