Emily: > I just wonder who of our candidates has any ability > whatsoever to manage this on the foreign front. I > always come back to who I see as our only choice, > flawed or not, and that would be our current > president/administration. > So, we are agreed. I believe in giving credit where credit is due: Obama approved the surge in Afghanistan; Obama killed Osama bin Laden and that Anwar al-Awlaki terrorist; Obama helped free Libya from Ghadaffi; and Obama can now say "mission accomplished" in Iraq.
So, I'm pretty sure Obama could defeat Iran's blocking of the Straight of Hormuz in a week or two. Obama has so many military "toys" at his disposal that Iran could be made defenseless in a matter of hours, or if needed, Gawd Forbid!!!, reduced to an ant hill in a matter of days. None of the candidates, except the incumbent, has a proven track record in foreign policy, so none probably have "any ability whatsoever to manage the foreign front", (even if they were even remotely electable). So, in my advice to you would be to vote for an the administration that can keep the Straight of Hormuz open - the Barak/Hillary ticket. That's the one! Get out and vote! Both Obama and Clinton have promised to keep America safe and to defend U.S. interests world-wide, with any means necessary, up to and including military force. 'Aircraft Carrier USS John C Stennis' http://youtu.be/wLPOTdG8vlc "The overarching goal is to slow, if not reverse, Iran's apparent progress toward developing a nuclear bomb something international diplomacy and a series of economic sanctions have not been able to accomplish..." 'The Christian Science Monitor' December 28, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/d6hlbfl
