In forming these views, he is assisted by his foreign policy team which includes Zbigniew Brzezinski, Mark Brzezinski, Anthony Lake, Susan Rice and Robert Malley.
Messrs Powell and Rumsfeld have lunch together every week with the third member of the Bush foreign policy team, Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser.
Podhoretz joins, among others on the foreign-policy team, the conservative Middle East scholar Martin Kramer and Charles Hill, a Hoover fellow and one of the instructors in the Grand Strategy seminar at Yale.
As governor of Texas, Mr Bush can hardly be judged on his foreign-policy achievements, but he has been a prominent supporter of immigration (not a bad guide in Republican terms) and he has inherited an experienced foreign-policy team from his father.
The real signs will come only when he appoints his foreign and defence policy team, and in his first crisis.
This is coupled with a traditionally outstanding foreign policy, universally appreciated for its team spirit, openness and flexibility.
He has a weighty team of foreign-policy advisers, but his likely secretary of state, Colin Powell, seems to favour a strict policy limiting military intervention abroad.
Once Mr Bush has more of his new team in place, other foreign-policy differences may start to seem more apparent than real.
Obama's team, like its supporters in the international foreign policy establishment, is dismayed by the Israeli opinion polls that show that Likud, led by Binyamin Netanyahu, is favored to win February 10's general elections by a wide margin.
So, it turns out, Team Obama suddenly wants the 2012 presidential campaign to be about foreign policy, rather than the economy.
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Like Senator McCain, Senator Obama too has a dedicated team (some report as many as 300 strong) that directs his foreign policy stances.
Foreign Policy's Peter Feaver suspects the leak come from inside the White House, not from Gen McChrystal's team.
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