and fails.
Fred Kaplan:
Rudy Giuliani's essay in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, laying out his ideas for a new U.S. foreign policy, is one of the shallowest articles of its kind I've ever read. Had it been written for a freshman course on international relations, it would deserve at best a C-minus (with a concerned note to come see the professor as soon as possible). That it was written by a man who wants to be president—and who recently said that he understands the terrorist threat "better than anyone else running"—is either the stuff of high satire or cause to consider moving to, or out of, the country.
...He doesn't seem to know what he's talking about at all. Two months ago, when Giuliani issued some of his first pronouncements on foreign policy, I wrote that he is "that most dangerous would-be world leader: a man who doesn't seem to know how much he doesn't know." Judging from his Foreign Affairs article, the breadth and depth of his cluelessness are vaster than even I had imagined.
Recall the early debate among Republican candidates where Ron Paul quietly pointed how little understanding Guiliani has of the political context of terrorism. Looks like that's just the tip of Rudy's Iceberg of Cluelesness.
President Guiliani would provide lots of red-meat entertainment worthy of professional wrestling fans and the lizard brains of the Republican base, but his foreign policy would be a trainwreck waiting to happen.
