Apparently, she was seduced....
Posted on 03/03/2010 11:59:41 AM PST by OldDeckHand
One wonders: does the Obama administration deliberately try to screw up our foreign policy, or is it just a matter of ignorance and incompetence? This is painful reading: "Argentina celebrates diplomatic coup as Hillary Clinton calls for talks over Falklands." Here is a photo of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Argentina's President Fernandez de Kirchner. So much for the idea that foreign relations would be conducted better by women.
Now onto the news.
Argentina was celebrating a diplomatic coup yesterday in its attempt to force Britain to accept talks on the future of the Falkland Islands, after a two-hour meeting in Buenos Aires between Hillary Clinton and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Responding to a request from Mrs Kirchner for "friendly mediation" between Britain and Argentina, Mrs Clinton, the US Secretary of State, said she agreed that talks were a sensible way forward and offered "to encourage both countries to sit down".
Her intervention defied Britain's longstanding position that there should be no negotiations unless the islands' 3,000 inhabitants asked for them. It was hailed in Buenos Aires as a major diplomatic victory, but condemned in the Falklands.
So, once again, the Obama administration has sold Great Britain, formerly our #1 ally, down the river, along with the inhabitants of the Falklands, whose opinions would seem to count for something. We are past the point where anyone could doubt that the Obama administration's hostility toward the U.K. is intentional. Obama seems to have substituted personal pathology for national policy. The London Times story continues:
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Not quite as harmful to U.S. foreign policy, I suppose, but MUCH messier if it hits one of our diplomats during a meeting.
Is that an actual quote from Rumsfeld? You forgot to include a link to where you got it.
If it were “ignorance and incompetence” they would accidentally get it right now and again.
Since they never get it right, it must be inferred they’re deliberately trying to screw it up.
Excellent observation.
Or if it hits the fan!!!
She might be thinking that, but as a practical matter, I think it’s impossible fro her to wrest the nomination from Obama. Even in the face of falling poll numbers, Obama has maintained an iron-fisted grasp on the minority voters, with some polls showing him still well above 90% of black support and over 80% with Hispanics.
She can take him down easily. All they have to do is fake a health problem for Bill, Hillary steps down (before 2010) and after the massacre provides the remaining dems a moderate progressive hill to rally to. Bammy will be totally neutered, Clinton Inc will signal to their minions to bring out the knives and carve him up for 2 years. Remember how many Clintonistas are in key positions in the media and Government. She needs a convincing personally appealing reason to step down as SOS, and she needs to do it within the next 3 months. Her electoral shelf life expires after 2012. Just sayin.
Or Obama can drop Biden in 2012 and have Hillary run as his VP.
This idiot woman, thinking she is one with the female pres of Argentina, may very well bring about a new conservative government of the UK. The Falklands have vast amounts of oil, Britain owns them, fought for them and will fight to keep them. Clinton is certifiably an idiot. This situation has the ability to completely change Parliament also.
I must admit I think I actually heard it originally from someone else.
They don't even need to fake it.
With two heart operations in the last few years, he's not a healthy man.
I’m confused - isn’t Hillary Clinton supposed to be the smartest woman on the planet? What happened?
Apparently, she was seduced....
I stated out without the “unknown unknowns” bit; and added them later, so that the connection with Rumsfeld’s logical approach would be clear.
On further reflection (i.e. having read my post, as well as writing it); I would change a couple of things. The outcomes of an incompetent administration, trying to serve the country, would be known unknowns — i.e. we know the agenda, we just don't know how well it will be executed. The outcomes of an incompetent administration, trying to screw things up would be unknown unknowns. We don't know their real agenda (because they're duplicitous); and we don't know how the execution will turn out.
In other words, we shouldn’t trust Obama further than we can spit.
:)
You sir, are a master of the précis.
If you gave Obama and crew a feather and a rock they would contrive a way to use the feather to screw up the rock. Then they would blame the damage on George W. Bush.
Oh? You're of the opinion that this isn't deliberate? I'll have to disagree...
the infowarrior
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