Last month, in a campaign event in Pennsylvania, Senator Obama made the following statement:

“The truth is that my foreign policy is actually a return to the traditional bipartisan realistic policy of George Bush’s father, of John F. Kennedy, of, in some ways, Ronald Reagan, and it is George Bush that’s been naive and it’s people like John McCain and, unfortunately, some Democrats that have facilitated him acting in these naive ways that have caused us so much damage in our reputation around the world.”

In his speech entitled “The World Beyond Iraq,” Senator Obama laid out a foreign policy agenda that seeks to move the United States away from a pre-emptive posture to a more measured approach in using military assets.  It is rare in today’s climate of super-partisan politics to find a Democrat praising the policy of a Republican (even a past one).  The question that should be asked is who is capable of transferring the foreign policy successes of George H.W. Bush of the early 1990s into the Obama administration?  For my money, it would be none other than Colin Powell.

In recent days, Powell has gone on record with the following statement, “I’ve seen other individuals come along who didn’t have that breadth of experience and what they do is surround themselves with people who do bring that experience. With Senator Obama, he didn’t have a lot of experience running a presidential campaign, did he?” Powell asked. “But he seems to know how to organize a task and he seems to know how to apply resources to a problem at hand. So that gives me some indication that (with) his inexperience in foreign affairs or domestic affairs, he may be someone who can learn quickly.”

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