What would we do without diplomats. I think they should be renamed doormats. These Leftists "expert" groups that keep coming out with anti-American bs are nicely identifying themselves.
Kerry's World: Father Knows Best [Excerpt] But, for all the neatness this narrative provides, it overlooks an entire chapter in Kerry's intellectual history: his childhood. In fact, Kerry's foreign policy worldview, characterized by a steadfast belief in international institutions and a suspicion of U.S. hard power, had fallen into place long before he ever enlisted. As Kerry's biographer, the historian Douglas Brinkley, told me, "So much of his foreign policy worldview comes straight from Richard Kerry."
.........[Earlier in article] "Americans," he [John Kerry's father, Richard] writes, "are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white." They celebrate their own form of government and denigrate all others, making them guilty of what he calls "ethnocentric accommodation -- everyone ought to be like us." As a result, America has committed the "fatal error" of "propagating democracy" and fallen prey to "the siren's song of promoting human rights," falsely assuming that our values and institutions are a good fit in the Third World. And, just as Americans exaggerate their own goodness, they exaggerate their enemies' badness. The Soviet Union wasn't nearly as imperialistic as American politicians warned, Kerry argues. "Seeing the Soviet Union as the aggressor in every instance, and the U.S. as only reacting defensively, relieves an American observer from the need to see any parallel between our use of military power in distant parts of the world, and the Soviet use of military power outside the Soviet Union," he writes. He further claims that "Third world Marxist movements were autonomous national movements" -- outside Moscow's orbit. The book culminates in a plea for a hardheaded, realist foreign policy that removes any pretense of U.S. moral superiority. [End Excerpt]
No........ Bush is just cancelling all the hot checks they wrote to "their" friends. Power is the singular constant in world politics. Reagan proved it with Russia and now Bush is proving it with all the other little Sino Soviet-ChiCom-Terrorist Dick-Tator whining SOB's and the Happy Hour Diplomatic Dipshits don't like it.
We'll they can kiss old brown spot right on his nose as far as I'm concerned.
Stay Safe Piasa !