A New Age Foreign Policy

[finknottle]

And Lincoln promised he would never interfere with slavery. So what?

 

Things change. Ahmadinajad is the target of bomb attempts now and needs to look like a legitamate leader, which many in his country do not consider him to be. Things change, politicians say things they don't mean...again, so what?

 

Fair enough. But this isn't some obscure campaign promise of a tax break. It is supposed to be the fundamental difference between his enlightened approach to conducting foreign policy and the same-old same-old of Clinton, Bush, and the Washington establishment generally. If Obama no longer believes in the efficacy of open dialog with adversaries, at least with Iran, it ought to be aknowledged.

[RI Bills Fan]

That would sound more reasonable coming from someone who wasn't such an excessive shill.

 

On PPP? Who would that be?

[Alaska Darin]

On PPP? Who would that be?

Certainly not you.

[RI Bills Fan]

Certainly not you.

 

Or you... So WHO?

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On PPP? Who would that be?

George

 

[Magox]

George

 

[RI Bills Fan]

George

 

 

[OCinBuffalo]

Fair enough. But this isn't some obscure campaign promise of a tax break. It is supposed to be the fundamental difference between his enlightened approach to conducting foreign policy and the same-old same-old of Clinton, Bush, and the Washington establishment generally. If Obama no longer believes in the efficacy of open dialog with adversaries, at least with Iran, it ought to be aknowledged.

But that would require Obama admitting he was wrong, and naive, about engagement

and,

that would require Dave_in_Norfolk admitting he voted for Obama, and made a mistake

and,

that would require conner's, and whoever writes the columns for Salon, Moveon, Huffington, etc. head's to explode.

 

Safe to say, nobody is going to admit they were wrong. The surge in Iraq didn't work, and the Iraq "War is lost", don't you remember?

 

I could be wrong about the head exploding thing. I suppose you actually have to have something besides whatever somebody wrote, that is based on whatever George Lakoff said yesterday, in your head in order for it to explode.