http://www.poligazette.com/2008/06/05/bolton-the-naive/ Because Common Sense Transcends Distance Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:56:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.poligazette.com/2008/06/05/bolton-the-naive/comment-page-1/#comment-55570 Andrew Wiese Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:43:34 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/06/05/bolton-the-naive/#comment-55570 The Republicans have apparently selected their nominee for this year's election slogan, and the winner is "Naive." <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]-->But what exactly does a "naive" foreign policy look like? Mr. Bolton's wandering op-ed notwithstanding, Naive is the foreign policy we have, a doctrine that has weakened the U.S. and strengthened our adversaries, a doctrine that, specifically, has strengthened and emboldened Iran. Naive is the belief that reckless U.S. foreign policy does not have ill consequences for us and for the world. Naive is Mr. Bolton's, and candidate McCain's, belief that four more years of Bush policy will lead to different results. Naive is the belief that a big stick is much use without soft speech, otherwise known as diplomacy. Neo-conservative naivete has done the U.S. more than enough harm over the last 7 and a half years. The least that its architects could do for the country at this juncture is return to their "think" tanks, close the doors and windows, and keep their naïve policy proposals to themselves. Andrew Wiese <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--> The Republicans have apparently selected their nominee for this year’s election slogan, and the winner is "Naive." But what exactly does a "naive" foreign policy look like? Mr. Bolton’s wandering op-ed notwithstanding, Naive is the foreign policy we have, a doctrine that has weakened the U.S. and strengthened our adversaries, a doctrine that, specifically, has strengthened and emboldened Iran. Naive is the belief that reckless U.S. foreign policy does not have ill consequences for us and for the world. Naive is Mr. Bolton’s, and candidate McCain’s, belief that four more years of Bush policy will lead to different results. Naive is the belief that a big stick is much use without soft speech, otherwise known as diplomacy. Neo-conservative naivete has done the U.S. more than enough harm over the last 7 and a half years. The least that its architects could do for the country at this juncture is return to their "think" tanks, close the doors and windows, and keep their naïve policy proposals to themselves. Andrew Wiese

]]> http://www.poligazette.com/2008/06/05/bolton-the-naive/comment-page-1/#comment-55492 Judah Hoover Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:22:02 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/06/05/bolton-the-naive/#comment-55492 Obama did not say we should talk to Iran, he said we should “without pre conditions” talk to Iran.Bolton thinks we should talk to Iran and everyone in the world... with preconditions.  The talking is not the point the preconditions or lack there of is the point.  When ever this issue is commented on it is missed that Obama said “with out preconditions”.... even the most liberal, peace loving diplomats in the state department will tell you preconditions are a must for any summit.  If it was not our policy to have preconditions for every meeting, what would the first 6 floors of the State Department do? Obama did not say we should talk to Iran, he said we should “without pre conditions” talk to Iran.Bolton thinks we should talk to Iran and everyone in the world… with preconditions.  The talking is not the point the preconditions or lack there of is the point.  When ever this issue is commented on it is missed that Obama said “with out preconditions”…. even the most liberal, peace loving diplomats in the state department will tell you preconditions are a must for any summit.  If it was not our policy to have preconditions for every meeting, what would the first 6 floors of the State Department do?

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