Just following up on last night’s Republican debate, I asked Christian Whiton, deputy director for national security on Newt Gingrich’s campaign, for his take on the foreign policy dimension of last night’s discussion in Arizona. Whiton was a U.S. State Department official from 2003 to 2009, first as a special advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, and then as a deputy special envoy. “I think Newt’s point at the end of the debate was key,” he told me. “Newt said: ‘I think that the fact is that the American public are really desperate to find somebody who can solve real problems...you’ve got to have somebody who can actually get it done in Washington, not just describe it on the campaign trail.’” Gingrich is no doubt aware that the candidates’ constant and brutal tearing down of their rivals isn’t doing the Republican Party much good. A spirited debate is essential ...
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