"There is no good position for foreign policy because there is no majority consensus in the US. Hundreds of millions of research dollars go into determining what should be said and when. If you take an extremist position early on then you're not even going to make it past your own primaries."

I agree it doesn't excuse it. I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of adjectivebear's statement.

"Which, in a way, just makes me dislike my bullies more for making me feel the need to become an equally mean person to survive them."