• Mike Huckabee urges a thorough reform of the Unites
States' foreign policy. The attitude and tone of America in its
foreign policy should change. The nation must open itself up and
reach out to others. This should at the same time be with no
compromise on the issue of sovereignty of the nation.

• The foreign policy outline of Mike Huckabee revolves
around the objectives such as eliminating the terrorist threat,
bringing normalcy in Iraq, containing Iran and taking a tough
stand with Pakistan.

• Regarding the question of religious terrorism, "A more
successful U.S. foreign policy needs to better explain Islamic
jihadism to the American people. Given how Americans have thrived
on diversity -- religious, ethnic, racial -- it takes an enormous
leap of imagination to understand what Islamic terrorists are
about, that they really do want to kill every last one of us and
destroy civilization as we know it. If they are willing to kill
their own children by letting them detonate suicide bombs, then
they will also be willing to kill our children for their
misguided cause."

• Huckabee also feels that this fight is not against the
world but against the terrorists themselves. "My administration
will recognize that the United States' main fight today does not
pit us against the world but pits the world against the
terrorists."

• In the Israel-Palestine issue, Huckabee considers the
state of Israel as a strategic ally of the United States of
America. At the same time he respects Palestine too. Huckabee is
also of the impression that there is no need for Israel to give
up Golan Heights or West Bank, a main sticking point.
		

• Obama speaks about providing a visionary leadership and
the need to renew the US global leadership position through
proper foreign policy, a renewed military along with a need to
confront the proliferation of the nuclear arsenal. The question
of nuclear proliferation is "the most urgent threat to the
security of America and the world."
 
• "This century's threats are at least as dangerous as and
in some ways more complex than those we have confronted in the
past. They come from weapons that can kill on a mass scale and
from global terrorists who respond to alienation or perceived
injustice with murderous nihilism. They come from rogue states
allied to terrorists and from rising powers that could challenge
both America and the international foundation of liberal
democracy. They come from weak states that cannot control their
territory or provide for their people. And they come from a
warming planet that will spur new diseases, spawn more
devastating natural disasters, and catalyze deadly conflicts."

• "After Iraq, we may be tempted to turn inward. That
would be a mistake. The American moment is not over, but it must
be seized anew. We must bring the war to a responsible end and
then renew our leadership -- military, diplomatic, moral -- to
confront new threats and capitalize on new opportunities. America
cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot
meet them without America."

• Barack Obama's most important foreign policy is with
respect to the question of Iraq. Obama envisages a regional
conference involving Iran and Syria as part of the strategy to
find an ultimate solution to the Iraq question.