Posted by
txag007 on Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:56:42 AM
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton has written a thoughtful analysis on the foreign policy priorities Senator Obama has said he would bring to the Presidency. Here is a sample:
On one side are those who believe that negotiations should be used to resolve international disputes 99% of the time. That is where I am, and where I think Mr. McCain is. On the other side are those like Mr. Obama, who apparently want to use negotiations 100% of the time. It is the 100%-ers who suffer from an obsession that is naïve and dangerous.
Negotiation is not a policy. It is a technique. Saying that one favors negotiation with, say, Iran, has no more intellectual content than saying one favors using a spoon. For what? Under what circumstances? With what objectives? On these specifics, Mr. Obama has been consistently sketchy.
Meanwhile, I've attempted to converse with our friends over at Texas Kaos in an effort to bring forth a defense of the liberal support for Mr. Obama's position. You may follow the discussion
here.