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Am I the only one who believes we shouldn’t pin foreign policy as a deciding factor on who to elect for president? Hear me out first…

That is not to say that how the US responds to Israel and Gaza is not important. Genocide is never the answer. What I’m suggesting instead is that a president should be elected primarily on domestic policies, not foreign ones.

Ok, thanks for reading — commence downvoting. 😊

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Except a presidents job is foreign policy. For domestic policy senate and house has far more control.

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Foreign policy is important for too as it also affects US domestically.

Having said that, US president can do very little to stop the conflict if fascist like Netanyahu doesn’t want to cooperate.

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Am I the only one who believes we shouldn’t pin foreign policy

We don’t have access to the same information they do, so we can’t easily judge their decision. The POTUS gets to have conversations with world leaders. These conversations convey attitudes, view points, and information we don’t have. They have the CIA, am ambassadors that are experts in the respective culture and country, and DIA that they get information from.

For all we know, Israel was going to nuke Gaza and Biden talked them down. Also, I can all but guarantee Hamas would be doing worse if the roles were reversed:

https://www.adl.org/resources/article/hamas-its-own-words

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Some extraordinary mental gymnastics to justify genocide. maybe theres something we dont know that justifies it, so its justified

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