Is Trump sane on (non trade) foreign policy?

[Leinad]

Closer than some, and it's one of his sanest areas.

No, but who is?

From my vantage point, the Libertarian Party. Although that may be outside of many people's definition of "sane."

Certainly no one in the Republican Party since Rand's departure.

[Leinad]

I'm okay with multilateralism, I just generally oppose foreign intervention.

I've never understood why Republicans think that Obama "apologizing for America" is the worst thing ever. I mean, do they think the US hasn't [screwed] stuff up big time? Or that our hand in destabalizing regions across the globe is a-okay?

Ditto with the "cutting the military budget" thing. Especially from people who say they're going to cut taxes and balance the budget. Mathematically, that requires cutting loads of spending to do both of those things. I have nothing against that, of course, but military spending would be one of the first things I'd cut. And okay, Rubiobot, our military is "the smallest it's been since before World War II." If that's true, that makes sense, because since that time we've constantly been trotting the globe spreading chaos. Our military spending per capita is twice as much as most countries already. Can't we afford to cut it some?

Again, as has been reiterated many times in this thread: the Republican Party, as a rule, is insane on foreign policy.

[Leinad]

A lot of American military is built along Cold War grounds. The nuclear defense policy is hilariously outdated, for a world where the major issue was trying to swagger over the USSR. I've never heard a decent argument that the whole triad couldn't just be replaced by a few defensive nuclear subs.

The defense of the high military spending is officially that being a hegemon inspires stability. Whether that has happened (or even if "stability" is the most important goal around) is another matter...

Indeed. I think that most Republicans think it's still the Cold War.

It's completely illogical to waste money on excess military spending. If you're going to tax people like you do and raise up a deficit, could you at least do it on, you know, helpful things?

That's the maddening stuff: they steal our elections, they steal our freedoms, and they steal our money so they can fund killings in the Middle East.

And yes, I don't think that's an overly extreme assesment of the situation.

[Leinad]

No.
Since when is torture sane?
Bomb ISIS? In other words who cares about all the innocent people who will be slaughtered in the process?

Torture is sane when dealing with terrorists.  They don't play by the rules.  It is a brutal world we live in.

Just because they act immoral doesn't mean we have to sink to their level.

Holy crap, that's how a two-year-old acts, not a supposedly "great" country!