Obama (Finally) Hints At Foreign Policy Direction

The Yankee Sailor ^ | 5/17/2008 | The Yankee Sailor

[Yankee Sailor]

Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama made his most substantive comments on foreign policy with respect to the Middle East in an interview with the New York Times yesterday. Here’s an excerpt:

“The debate we’re going to be having with John McCain is how do we understand the blend of military action to diplomatic action that we are going to undertake,” he said. “I constantly reject this notion that any hint of strategies involving diplomacy are somehow soft or indicate surrender or means that you are not going to crack down on terrorism. Those are the terms of debate that have led to blunder after blunder.”

Obama said he found that the military brass thinks the way he does: “The generals are light-years ahead of the civilians. They are trying to get the job done rather than look tough.”

[sirchtruth]

This guy is a piece of work. Numbnutted to the bitter core.
Let’s see 14 resolutions, inspectors kicked out numberous times, touts of destroying your enemy with nuclear bombs, fired on aircraft, harboring terrorist, providing fighters and weopons to insurgents and terrrorist, etc..., and this idiot thinks diplomacy is going to work after years and years of trying to be dip-lomatic.

[Sacajaweau]

The Gulf War ending was “Conditional”. And Saddam smiled!!

[Bommer]

“I constantly reject this notion that any hint of strategies involving diplomacy are somehow soft or indicate surrender or means that you are not going to crack down on terrorism. Those are the terms of debate that have led to blunder after blunder.”

Wonder how many times he "diplomatically" talked his way out of a bully kicking his effeminate ass? Hey Muslim boy, this is how the UN deals with its problems. Check out their success rate around the world!

[Dutch Boy]

From Obama's website
Diplomacy: Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. Now is the time to pressure Iran directly to change their troubling behavior. Obama would offer the Iranian regime a choice. If Iran abandons its nuclear program and support for terrorism, we will offer incentives like membership in the World Trade Organization, economic investments, and a move toward normal diplomatic relations. If Iran continues its troubling behavior, we will step up our economic pressure and political isolation. Seeking this kind of comprehensive settlement with Iran is our best way to make progress.

Bush said....
"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

If Bush wasn't talking about Obama it was pretty darn close match.