what is the republican partys view on foreign policy?
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To quote the official Republican platform, in their own words...\n\n"The supreme purpose of our foreign policy must be to maintain our freedom in a peaceful international environment in which the United States and our allies\nand friends are secure against military threats, and democratic governments are flourishing in a world of increasing prosperity."\n\n"Defeating terrorism requires the United States to:\n* help establish stable and democratic governments in nations such as Afghanistan and Iraq that once supported terrorism;\n* support front-line states and coalition partners;\n* deepen counterterrorism, intelligence, and law enforcement cooperation with allies and friends; and\n* energetically promote democracy, especially in the Broader Middle East."
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USA Foreign policy is freindly overall and they're certainly considered our allies, but Canada has a different political basis than we do. \n\nCanada has seen their own share of issues and they don't like to be seen as the "US' little brother" so they typically take a different political stance than we do-- most importantly on the Iraq war, where there was a semi-serious movement by some Canadian politicians to arrest Bush if he ever set foot on Canadian soil. (The likelihood of this ever happening was slim, but it certainly made a point throuhg it's rounds in the associated press carrying the story).
994263
Yes, Republicans, not all, but most of the powerful ones have \n               much in common with Communists.\n1. They both like wars and hate it when wars come to an end.\n2. They like repeating, repeating themselves.\n3. They just love secrets, secrets make them feel cuddly.\n4. They like to go on golfing trips to Ireland? Go figure!\n5. They can't balance a budget.\n6.  And finally, just before elections, they produce lots of gas.
987789
I think for Republicans, power & money = freedom and liberty.  And they seem to think that as long as the leaders have it, America is safe in the world.  Power is control, Religions lobby the government just like Big Oil and Pharma and countless others.  \n\nI think that right now the Religious Right is perceived as very powerful and perceived as the majority in this country - when they are only just barely 51% of voters.  That makes them a natural ally for Republicans and Republicans need to strike now, before we start having 75% or 95% of Americans (not just registered Voters) coming out to vote.\n\nSo what I am saying is that the Republicans are happy to use the power of the Religious Right because they are the power of today.  They will do whatever the Religious Right says, if they can, in turn, continue to provide the votes to keep Republicans rolling in "freedom and liberty".
941887
Republicans believe that everyone has an equal chance to succeed, so they are against Affirmative Action and the like, because, unlike Democrats, they feel that minorities have every chance to do well.  Republicans believe in Equality.  Republicans believe in lower taxes and free trade\n\nDemocrats are more socialist.  They believe in the distribution of wealth.  They believe in the expansion of a welfare state.  They oppose a strong military and national defense.  They are for raising taxes and more government programs
411128
No, you're not the only Republican on Yahoo Answers, message boards or any other Yahoo services. But I haven't considered myself a Republican in quite a while, though. I tend to lead towards their direction on some issues(foreign policy, trasnportation, etc.), and the Democrats on others(equality for minorities). I lost my faith with the GOP in the 1990's with too much immigrant-bashing and 1930's-style isolation in the face of the Serbain genocide in the Balkans.\n\nToo often on Yahoo, I see Democrats, Liberals, Socialists, and yes even Communists, insisting that all the problems of the world are caused by America, Republicans, and/or Bush, when the facts prove otherwise. In their collective fantasy world, all Republicans are either rich CEO's who want to exploit the poor and see our foreign policy as a means of doing so, or they're uneduated poor white trash who live in trailer parks in the south, married their sisters or cousins, get all their ideas about the world from Rush Limbaugh and/or the Fox News Channel, and spend their nights in Ku Klux Klan cross-burnings. To them, Republicans only attack Michael Moore because he's fat, Saddam Hussein wasn't a sponsor of terrorism and didn't have a WMD program(except the one they think they can blame on Reagan), simply because he wasn't involved in the 9/11 attacks, and we're only attacked Iraq for oil, and/or because Bush simply wanted revenge for trying to assasinate his father, or wosre, simply because the nation is run by "brown people." They also believe that just because the news media hasn't covered our troops in Afghanistan as much, that Bush somehow forgot about going after Osama Bin Laden. In their twisted view, complaining about Clinton's sexual misconduct is worse than allowing some Middle East zealots or lingering Commie thugs to cause more bloodshed in the world. According to their party line, our troops are being killed simply because the Iraqi people are resisting the occupation(which was just as much of a lie in Indochina), not because they want to kill people for not being from THEIR dominion of Islam, or because they want to stop those who want to help the Iraqi people recover from Saddam's former oppressive regime and our bombing the country to take it down. And of course, if we don't buy their idiotic 9/11 conspiracy theories, the rest of us are all blind Bush-sheep and neo-fascist tools of PNAC(People for a New American Century) -- they REALLY love to exacerbate PNAC as some kind of threat.
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conservative on: pro-support for war in irag/iran, pro-confederate battle flag, pro-get the metal storm into production.\n\nliberal on pro-choice, pro-give land back to Indians (at least some of it), pro-clean up the nuclear dump sites, pro-environmentalist, pro-affirmative action
379455
Republican.  Democrats have no agenda or ideas except to criticize.  They call that a strategy?
1014921
Republican as their aim was spot on.\n\nI saw that documentary too on UK tv about how well a military person performs depending on their country's leadership.\n\nIt kinda got lost on our US cousins though as the program was only shown on UK TV.
1104400
The Republicans' official party platform has consistently been pro-business and pro-investment.  \n\nTheir official position has also always been that taxation has a stultifying effect on business and competition, so they tend to be for cutting taxes whenever possible.  They've also historically been in favor of giving tax breaks to various businesses, on the theory that this will help the overall economy in the long run by making businesses more profitable, and therefore better able to compete and grow.  Investments are taxed at a lower rate than regular income for the folks in the top income tax brackets; this encourages investment, which CAN have the effect of helping rich folks to increase their wealth.  (Poor people barely have enough money to scrape by, so they can't take advantage of long-term capital gains tax breaks.)\n\nWhen it comes to what's known as "human capital," however, it's been the Democrats who have historically been interested in investing in social programs by directly helping people (instead of assuming--as the Republicans tend to do--that a healthy business climate will have a "trickle down" effect that helps out individual people--including the economically-disadvantaged ones--in the long run).  The Democrats have used taxation as a means to attempt to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor and to directly assist economically-disadvantaged people (they do this by charging wealthy people the highest percentage-of-income on their taxes and charging poor people either very little, nothing at all, or even giving them a sort of income tax rebate [you could call it a "negative tax," since they receive money, instead of having to pay it out]).\n\nBoth sides tend to look upon one another's means of stimulating the economy with contempt.  The Republicans will rail against the fostering of a state of "dependency," as well as a lack of motivation toward self-sufficiency in "the welfare state."  But they don't apply the same principle to giving handouts to businesses--even when businesses seem to return the favor by sending jobs overseas, giving huge bonuses to their executives instead of reinvesting in and growing the business, etc.  \n\n*I* say that "Welfare is welfare, and what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."  Both sides, I feel, have valid points.  And both sides tend to go about achieving their long-term goals using some very short-sighted methods.  If they'd both stop with the rhetoric and the spin-doctoring and work together on some realistic, long-term  solutions to our problems, we'd probably see some real progress.
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Traditionally the Republican party has standed for some great ideals.  They came up as a party that stood for a smaller government with less hands in the everyday lives of people.  They have conservative stances on the many moral issues; anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, etc. \n    In the last five years they have changed that face quite a bit. They are currently fighting for their right to wiretap any person's phone without a warrant or just cause.  They want to fund churches with tax dollars, which sounds nice, but there is a reason church and state are seperated, it is a slippery slope to ending up like a fundamentalist goverment like Afghanistan had in the Taliban.  They also are currently trying to amend the Constitution to deny gay marriage, preaching on the sanctity of marriage, but I haven't heard of any legislation to lower the divorce rate of heterosexual couples, so it's really just a front for the Christian conservatives trying to put the Bible in place of the Constitution.  During the current administration's reign the middle class has gotten poorer and the upper class has gotten more tax breaks.  Also the minimum wage hasn't been raised since Bush took office, but everything has gone up in price considerably.  The average minimum rent for a given city is now more than the monthly take home pay for a person on minimum wage.
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What several have listed are actually conservative ideals.  The republican party is closer to conservatism than the present democrat party, but still not conservative.   Oddly, the democrats in the day of JFK were more conservative than the republican party is today.\n\nUnfortunately the democrat party has gone off the left end of the spectrum and the republicans are heading there too.   We probably need a strong conservative third party if we want to save this country.
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Republicans believe in following traditions. Which does include, following the constitution and also keeping religious rights out there. A big issue with them, is they're against homosexuals and anything else that is listed as "sinful" in teh bible or whatever the fuk they believe.\n\nDemocrats are a little the opposite of that and believe equal rights, freedom, and believe that Americans NEED their help.\n\nLike you, I definately go for the Libertians, whom believe that government should back the heck off and let us handle our own problems. But yea, unfortunately, it's mostly only one of the two major parties that will ever win... D or R. Lame.
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You can vote for the party who voted to cut our military-even though many democrat senators urged President Bill Clinton on Oct. 9,1998 , in a letter , ( sign by prominent Dem.Senators & John Kerry before he was against going to Iraq-then momentarily for it before he was against it again )to attack Saddam over WMD'S- or you can vote for the party who will defend America NO MATTER WHAT . And you can be sure Republicans won't stand on both sides of the fence and do nothing -which is the reason nothing was done about terrorism before . Without National Security what do you have besides nothing ?
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I strongly disagree. Their foreign policy is disastrous. Look at Iraq continually sliding to all-out civil war. Look at the support Bush gave the repressive regime in Azerbaijan just because it is a supporter in the war on terror. Even though I agree with both Bush and Blair on social issues, I would not think twice of electing even the most liberal candidate to replace them.
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The Republican Party has never really meant it when they talk about less intrusion into people's personal lives-- they still want to control people's behavior in the bedroom, preach what religious doctrines we should have, and prevent us from using recreational drugs that are less harmful than alcohol.  They have profited from their pseudolibertarian talk, but you can't fool the American people forever.
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I'm a republican.\n1. GOP pushes non-issues like abortion and gay marriage to energize and get out the vote of the religious ...it works.\n2. Democrats criticize everything the GOP does to energize and get out the vote of the uninformed....it works.\n3. Both parties will be united WHEN we are attacked again. But it will be temporary. \n4. I think ONE term limits and NO compensation of ANY kind (no free golf etc.) would be a good start. Then only patriots would apply.