Charlie Gibson’s first question is on “The Bush foreign policy” – Gibson goes first to Huckabee, about his “arrogant” and “bunker mentality” comments.

Huckabee said “we gave the world the impression that we would ignore how they thought or how they felt.”

Huckabee has another one of his great, aphorism-like answers, hitting Rumsfeld for the “you don’t go to war with the army you want, you go to war with the army you have.” Huckabee says, “we shouldn’t go to war with the army we have, we should go to war with the army we need.” Smooth, very smooth.

Thompson: “I don’t think our foreign policy is arrogant.”

Giuliani: Praises President Bush for “putting us on offense in the war on terror. We were on defense until then… Mistakes have also been made. I think one of the things that would help would be to increase the size of our military. Bill Clinton cut the size of our military.” Calls for 10 more combat brigades.

So far, I like the format.

McCain: America is not safe, America is safer… I’m the only one here who disagreed at the time. I’m the only one who said at the time we needed a new strategy. He calles Petraeus as “one of the finest military leaders in American history.”

McCain throws a bit of praise in Giuliani’s direction, for his leadership after 9/11.

Paul says he liked the humble foreign policy that Bush ran on in 2000. “I’m as concerned about the threat as anyone, maybe more.”

Mitt Romney says, “Ron, you need a through understanding of the threat presented by radical jihadism.” Romney says he wants to see greater nonmilitary efforts to move the world of Islam to moderation.

Thompson: Preemption didn’t just show up one day. … We could be attacked with a biological weapon and not even know it… Things that happen on the other side of the world can affect us right here.

So far, the debate hasn’t gotten much beyond generalities; other than Ron Paul, we haven’t seen much of anything that any of the Big Five candidates would disagree on.

Ron Paul may be playing the role of pinata tonight, as everybody takes a shot at him. Huckabee even slips into the background…

Until he points out that Romney says, “we won’t ahve the my way or the highway mentality.” I supported the surge when you didn’t. I worked really hard to get him elected. (In Arkansas?)

Romney and Huckabee get into a little scuffle over whether Romney read Huckabee’s Foreign Affairs article.

Romney: Don’t try to characterize my position?

Huckabee: Which one?

Romney accuses him of making a personal attack and says, ‘you talk about your policies, governor, and I’ll talk about mine.’

Gibson is left makign the “Time out” moment as everybody goes after Paul when he asks why Islamists don’t attack Canada. “Why do we support their dictators?” Ron Paul asks.

Giuliani – “When my city was attacked we’re not going to engage in group blame.”