Has nothing to do with being smart. It is all about how much you dig in and inform yourself. For example you are not a smart person when it comes to solar grid. Instead, you are a very informed person by doing the research. People should come to you for consultation if they want to install a solar system.

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About your question. I still think it matters. President to presidents it is different even within the same party. So the picture look like this: say there is a 25 year strategic plan, the job of each president is to continue to execute to those strategic plans. What is different is the tactical moves of each president, one might want to go all out war like GWB, the other like Obama does it through for example "The Arab Spring". Even Trump had to execute it and maybe Trump's method was through sanctions, deterrence, and containment but not war.

 

 

I think the above tactical variations exist from one president to another. That is how I see it.

KAmkAr couple of things about Soleimani:

 

 

1) Let's start with IRI shooting down the US drone. Trump was about to attack but then aborted the mission mid air 10 min before the strike. Pissed off Milley and Bolton. Why did he abort? Did not want Escalation. Did not want to engage in a war. There is always the question of "then what".

 

 

2) He did warn IRI, you kill one US citizen or a military person, you are fucked. A civilian got killed and 48 hours later, Ghassem became kotlet.

 

 

3) Soleimani although called a general, is not part of the official Islamic Republic of Iran Army which is under Geneva Convention protection. He is the head of a militia group called Quds force under no international protection. Had the strike happened to an actual Army general under Geneva protection, that would have be considered act of war. That is why Trump humbly came and announced Soleimani was fried under my direct order. Because according to international laws he did not do anything unlawful. Just like how Obama sent the troop and tomatoed Bin Ladin.

For the rest of your points. Yes they do proudly call themselves "Neoconservative". Nothing wrong with the term. In principal they don't give a crap about domestic stuff like healthcare and other stuff. Their main and only focus is foreign policy. But that does not mean they are the only foreign policy makers. Obama tried his best to fumigate them but they are back now. I am sure they are part of a bigger "think tanks" or in Farsi

 

عاملان پشت پرده

 

or what Trump calls "Deep State".

 

So to your point when it comes to voting, most of the agenda presented to people during campaign are mostly domestic stuff. Like healthcare, education, abortion, Environment, immigration, and... And of course if in the middle of war there are campaigns for ending the war and returning troops back.

 

So up to you. If your priority is mostly domestic affairs then sure you vote for a candidate who will address those. But if foreign affairs has higher interest and priority for you then you have to dig in. Because those are not discussed. Bush and Cheney never promoted that they are ready to go to war and they have major interventionist plans.

 

For me World affair is more important because it affects all of us including our healthcare, environment, and education. For me war and displacing and killing of innocent people (1/2 million so far in Ukraine - Russia war) is more important than counting the number of death during Covid and blame it all on the president. 

No Zinsky. Not quite. Neoconservatism is more of an ideology or movement. First started in 60s when the so called "liberal Hawks" became disappointed and fed up with the soft foreign policy of the Democratic Party and with the growing Left during Vietnam war.

 

Neoconservatives agenda and philosophy supposedly promotion of democracy and interventionism globally. Just like how they promoted democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

 

These Neoconservatives became political think thanks in the Republican presidential administrations of since Nixon, peaking in influence during the administration of GWB, when they played a major role in promoting and planning the 2003 invasion of Iraq. And now infested in Biden administration. Them being in this administration there are no arguments about it, but all of a sudden they became nice guys and liberal that's a different story. It is like 4 years from now Shahin claiming that circumstances changed and Trump has now changed and he is a very nice and liberal guy. 😂😀

 

Essentially neoconservatives are described as foreign policy makers and war hawks who support aggressive militarism.

 

It is a doctrine / movement / ideology of some sort.

When Russia fucks IRI, they do it khoshk khoshk

 

Iran’s deal to purchase the long-desired Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets from Russia has unexpectedly fallen through. And they already paid for them.