For most of our history, americans didn't care much about foreign policy. We were protected by two oceans, and the idea of American exceptional-ism suggested that we were exempt from the ancient enmities of the Old World. Even in the years leading up to World Wars Ⅰ and Ⅱ, voters were far more interested in staying out of foreign wars than in understanding what those fights were all about. For the past 30 years, Americans have clearly preferred Governors in the White House—four of the past five Presidents had been state chief executives—and Governors tend to be thin on foreign policy experience.'Presidential candidates have needed detailed policies on taxes and welfare and social security. So what if they didn't know the name of the Prime Minister of Malaysia?
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