Candidate Barack Obama went to Berlin in 2008. He addressed an adoring crowd of tens of thousands there and told these Europeans he was “a citizen of the world.” It was an almost unprecedented event. Dwight Eisenhower was the first presidential candidate to make a foreign trip a key part of his campaign for the White House. As former military chief of NATO, Ike pledged in his 1952 campaign against the hapless Adlai Stevenson: “I will go to Korea.” Once Eisenhower, the five-star General of the Army, made that pledge historians say, the election was effectively over.  But Ike’s Korea promise dealt with a bloody and divisive war Americans desperately wanted to end. Michigan Gov. George Romney (R) went to South Vietnam in 1965 during another long, bloody, and inconclusive war. He came back expressing complete confidence in American resolve and arguing for a U.S. military victory. Within two years of that statement, however, the elder Romney sought...(Read Full Article)