It was interesting to hear all the foreign policy talk last night at the Republican debate. If nothinig else, it confirmed my opinion that none of the cadidates save Ron Paul has any business going niear the Oval Office.
For the most part, the Republican position on foreign policy seems to be no-fly-zones, sanctions, dronings and threatened invasions, war, more war, and a good righteous tongue lashings against countries without nukes. On the other hand if you, like Pakistan, have a nuke, you’re our best buddy well deserving of foreign aid so long as you don’t do anything really stupid like not fully cooperate with the US war on terror.
Now you tell me, why wouldn’t the Iranian mullahs want a nuke? It’s the only way a nation gets any respect from the US foreign policy establishment. In today’s world, not having a nuke is like brining a knife to a gun fight.
Further, what’s the deal with foreign aid? There is no consititional or moral ground for the US federal government to take money from American taxpayers and give it to foreign governments. All such funding is theft, and the day it stops will be a huge step forward for American foreign policy.
The war on terror is a joke. Terrorism, as has been pointed out by others much better qualifed than I, is a tactic. War is declared against nations, not tactics. There has been no declaration of war on terror by congress and there never will be. If congress ever tried to do this, the logical absurdity of such an act would be apparent even to an average Republican presidential candidate.
Lux Lucet 
The war on terror really is a sad joke. It would be one thing to discuss declared wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, but wars on tactics and undeclared wars that last a decade are tiring to say the least.
Both undermine the rule of law, and I pray that God will bring reformation before the total subversion of liberty and law.
Perhaps I ought to focus my prayers on Christ’s swift return.
The older I get, the more I long to see Christ return. But until he does, we Christians have the comfort of knowing that all things which come to pass, however terrible they may seem at the time, do so according to God’s decree, not by accident. And these things he has purposed for our eternal good.