Herman Cain on Libya

This is an odd response. I would have assumed that Cain would have thought about foreign policy before choosing to run for president, and that he and his staff would have realized that he would be asked questions about Libya and Arab Spring, so I would have expected him to come loaded to respond. Clearly Cain did not want to say that Obama had done the right thing, yet clearly the Libya policy was a great success of the Obama administration. The United States was able to support the EU and the Arab League in opposing a dictator. The U.S. military support was critical to the overthrow of the Gaddafi government, and was accomplished with no loss of American lives, almost certainly saving many Libyan lives. Cain seems to have been saying that he didn't know how much information Obama had about the Gaddafi opposition in making decisions with respect to Libya, that he could not say what information would be critical in making those decisions, but that Obama might not have gotten enough information when he was making the decisions. One is left suspecting that Cain would have waited too long seeking information that simply did not exist anywhere, and would have missed a major opportunity. The fundamental point is that perhaps the key job of the president is keeping the nation safe in a dangerous would and keeping the nation prosperous in an increasingly globalized world. Foreign policy knowledge and skill should be a key concern in choosing a presidential candidate. The Republican candidates that are thought to have a chance for the nomination don't seem to know much about foreign policy, and the candidates that do know something about foreign policy don't seem to have a chance with to get the nomination.