Air Force One touched down in Rangoon on Monday morning, making Barack Obama the first U.S. President to ever visit the small, controversial country of Myanmar.
Here are the four ways Mitt Romney is attacking President Obama on foreign policy: He's too wimpy like Jimmy Carter, he's too vain to do diplomatic drudgery, he's too callous to recognize the humanity of the people who died in Libya, and he's too bureaucratic to use the private sector to help developing countries.
After several days of fierce campaign fighting, blustery press releases and snippy surrogates on cable, the major differences between President Obama and Mitt Romney on foreign policy are ones of personality, not policy — and even the personality differences are probably overstated.
Americans are divided as to who will best handle foreign issues, and Romney leads North Carolina. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
It was supposed to be an easy policy debate for Romney's foreign policy aide, Richard Williamson. Instead, he found a way to make news two ways. First, by latching onto Tom Donilon as the White House leaker, and then by referring to Russia as the Soviet Union.
The break the presidential candidates took from attacking each other ended not all at once, but in pieces Monday, mostly at the campaign staff level. On Tuesday, all niceness will end at the candidate level, too, as Romney will call Obama an appeaser.
Pakistani officials announced today that they have evidence that a U.S. drone strike might have killed Abu Yahya al-Libi, al-Qaeda's most recent second-in-command, apparently just one week after the previous No. 2 was killed.
Mitt Romney has a few favorite words he uses as a crutch when he can't think of anything actually bad to say about President Obama.
Rick Santorum's campaign is attracting some snickers after announcing he plans to make a major foreign policy speech at the Jelly Belly factory in Pennsylvania on Thursday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry just posted a scathing overview of the United States' human rights violation -- many of them obviously reference Guantanamo and the Patriot Act -- that sort of reads like an old issue of The Nation Magazine.
We're not sure Herman Cain would like this commenter's newer, sexier version of his foreign policy map.
Herman Cain has released a "vision for foreign policy and national security" on his web site, and it includes a map in which he labels major world countries with pithy (and boy do we mean pithy) summaries of the U.S. relationship with them.
President Obama, it seems, is well within the tradition of American presidents who got stuck with a foreign policy catchphrase not of their making.
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