[Vigilanteman]

Baker's surrender strategy was - and is -- also the core of his foreign policy theory. He, like many of his background and age, are stability addicts. To gain stability - on domestic or foreign fronts - he's willing to trade more than it is worth. Trying to prop up Gorbachev, Baker opposed American support for Balkan freedom, nearly getting into a fistfight with fellow cabinet member Jack Kemp over it. Now, when the Iranian mullahs are beset by falling oil production and growing internal unrest, Baker wants to make it harder for Iranians to overthrow the mullahs just like he wanted to make it harder for Latvia and Lithuania to shake off the shackles of the Soviets.

Just about sums up James Baker's resume.

[Obadiah]

And people wonder why America always sought to prop up dictators around the world in the last 75 years! It was because of people like James Baker. THe very same Baker who sold Reagan down the river and started the whole Iran/Contra scandal.