Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy Gives me a Headache.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:55am Matt DiBari
For months, Senator Barack Obama ran on a platform of sitdown conversations with dictators without precondition.
Because the American public understandably was not warm to this idea, he recently backed off. Courtesy of Susan Rice
Susan E. Rice, a former State Department and National Security Council official who is a foreign policy adviser to the Democratic candidate, said that “for political purposes, Senator Obama’s opponents on the right have distorted and reframed” his views. Mr. McCain and his surrogates have repeatedly stated that Mr. Obama would be willing to meet “unconditionally” with Mr. Ahmadinejad. But Dr. Rice said that this was not the case for Iran or any other so-called “rogue” state. Mr. Obama believes “that engagement at the presidential level, at the appropriate time and with the appropriate preparation, can be used to leverage the change we need,” Dr. Rice said. “But nobody said he would initiate contacts at the presidential level; that requires due preparation and advance work.”
Now, in response to George Bush likening the original Obama policy to the appeasement of Hitler, Communications Director John Roberts has this to say.
“Obviously this is an unprecedented political attack on foreign soil,” Obama Communications Director Robert Gibbs told CNN’s John Roberts on American Morning Thursday, adding that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had been quoted Wednesday making remarks about dialogue with Iran that were similar to the Illinois senator’s.
“Let’s not confuse precondition with preparation,” said Gibbs of any talks with Iran. “Obviously these meetings would be full of preparation. But we’re not going to sit down and engage Iran, unless or until they give up their nuclear weapons program.[”]
First of all, demanding they give up their nuclear program is not a precondition?
But more importantly, which of the three policies is really Barack Obama’s policy?
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1. Peggy | May 16th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Our Presidend is 100% right on the money. Too many in this country have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. My mother is a Holocaust Survivor. Her parents were killed in front of her in Auschwitz in the crematoriums. You do not “negotiate” with people who want to blow countries “off the map”. You do not have “a dialogue” with people who deny the genocide of 6 million Jews and 7 million Catholics and other political prisoners. That is not in the “negotiable category” and it is entirely naive to think otherwise. Bush’s points were powerful and true and that is why the liberal appeasers of our great nation are scrambling like mad to discredit his statements to the detriment of us all. In their arrogance, their thirst for power, and pride filled blindness they relentlessly endanger the lives of every American including their own. Period