Reply #14: you can't say zero [View All]

[Wetzelbill]

He works with different country's delegations all the time, he does a lot of business with Canada, he's lived in the Middle East, been to Iraq. People in Congress who sit on foreign affairs committees don't have real world experience like that. Plus foreign policy "experience" is the most vastly overrated concept. Nobody really has true foreign policy experience unless they are a lifelong diplomat, a general or served as a cabinet member or president. It's like the 3am phone thing, how the hell can you say somebody is prepared to do that unless they actually received it? McCain never has gotten that call. Hillary hasn't etc. I don't really count as foreign policy experience when some clown on the foreign affairs committee goes to Iraq and takes the Green Zone tour.

What is much more important is how people think, their judgement and willingness to learn. The foreign policy status quo is wrong half the time anyway, so who needs experience like that? I'd take somebody who has proven they can work with other countries, as Schweitzer has, and has the capacity to lead and be a statesman.