The GOP and Foreign Policy: Long on Rhetoric, Short on Substance?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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The 17 Republican candidates for president are almost unanimous when it comes to foreign affairs. Almost all are getting their ideas from one group of advisors, called the John Hay Initiative.
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| 0:25.8 | There's GOP rhetoric on foreign policy. What's the plan? |
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| 0:39.4 | If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is next year's Democratic nominee, foreign policy will be front and center in the presidential campaign. |
| 0:47.1 | Most of the 17 Republican hopefuls are foreign policy amateurs, but they're almost unanimously hawkish, |
| 0:53.4 | blaming the Democrats for weakness. It turns out that |
| 0:56.3 | almost all are consulting the same group of advisors who were part of Mitt Romney's losing campaign |
| 1:01.9 | in 2012. We'll hear what the John Hay Initiative is telling the candidates about war, diplomacy, |
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| 1:57.4 | Hello again. I'm Armin Alney back with To the Point. The 17 Republican candidates for president are almost unanimous when it comes to foreign affairs. They're almost all amateurs, and it turns out they're getting their ideas from one group of veteran advisors called the John Hay Initiative. We'll hear who that is and what they're proposing. |
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