Not to side track, but I thought we got these strange “character” type quote issues fixed??
Good article, worth reading in its entirety whether you favor Cruz or not.
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Looks like a good read. Ping for later ...
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Great article! Thanks for posting it.
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Good article. She’s a bright and sensible lady. There is so much that could be quoted. On Russia:
“What the Russians do is follow their best interests. And there’s absolutely no interest in human rights, or any of the ideals that underpin our society. ... They are what they are. And they have not changed over hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of years. So it’s unlikely they are going to change next year even if we have a new American President. ...
And that’s why actually Vladimir Putin ranks pretty highly on lists of people Americans admire. It’s not because they particularly like him, or they think the Russians are our friends, but they are impressed by the fact that there is a leader who will do what he thinks is in the best interest of his country.”
As to the 2nd paragraph, I’ve sometimes said that Obama and Putin are both thugs; one loves his country.
Who’d a thought. Substance.
On China.
“Well they’re pretty clear about it, that they would like superpower status. ...
Now, I don’t necessarily think that the PRC will be a wonderful actor in a superpower role, so I might be inclined to try to push back on that in different ways. We certainly have human rights-it’s always been just extraordinary to me that the first time Hillary Clinton went to China in February of ‘09, she announced human rights were off the table. We’re not even gonna talk about it. It’s incredible. Why would we cede the moral high ground to these people? It just, it makes no sense. I mean they hate it. Good. That’s a tool. I mean it’s a feature, not a bug. And so you can push back that way.
There are certainly a range of different economic tools. ...
And it also gets back to the military investment. If they know America is strong, if they know America has carrier groups that can be deployed, if they know we have long-range strike bombers that we can use, then they’re much less likely to behave in the way that we would find unpleasant because they know there’s going to be a repercussion. But if we refuse to make these investments, where this administration has, then they know there isn’t gonna be any retribution. And they’re more likely to act aggressively.”