If we were to consider — even some 20 months out — how important foreign policy will be in the 2016 U.S. elections, a smart take from inside the Beltway might sound something like this: Sure, foreign policy is important, but most of the time just not to most Americans who vote.
Americans continue to be singularly uninterested in matters beyond their borders unless, of course, bad things that are far away come much closer to home. (See large numbers of Americans dying in wars on foreign soil, rising gas prices, and terrorist threats to the homeland.)
But even the latter — …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
