Better Diplomacy Through a 'League of Democracies'?
GOP presidential candidate McCain pitches the idea, but it's not nearly as simple as it sounds
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Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are successful?
Um instead of Saddam's last year (2002) in which HRW reports scores (less than two hundred people were killed we now have around 1/4 of Iraq's population internally, or externally displaced or dead and the US in for over 2 trillion dollars.
Both Afghanistan and Iraq's governments must still be kept in power by military action many years after our intervention and Afghanistan, the primary focus of the real war on extra-international terrorists that threaten the US is a failing war, unless one's sheepish mind accepts Bush administration propaganda as 'truth'.
Most importantly though, the article shows that Wesley Clark, who, ran NATO for pete's sake, was spot on about John McCain's experience being up to running US. And it doesn't look like his advisers are very good either.
Yes, your guys's approach has been so beneficial, so influential that you have succeeded in ending many of the threats that we faced today.
Oh wait, I must be in Bizarroworld. The fact of the matter is that neither party has produced an effective foreign policy that gets countries to like us. Then again, I don't care so much about governments of said countries liking us. We shouldn't be in the business of rogue countries liking us.
"He lists several democracies that have troubled relations with the United States, including Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nepal, Palestine, and Pakistan. Several recent elections have produced regimes that are outwardly hostile to the United States, particularly one in the Gaza Strip where Hamas, labeled a terrorist group by the United States, came to power."
What this idiot forgets to tell you is that the myriad of good democracies that have great relations with us. You know, most of the Europeans who disagreed with the war, but recognized their own weaknesses, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, etc., etc., etc. Going to a leftist to get your side of the argument betrays your bias.
""I don't regard this idea as terribly attractive," says Richard Danzig, a former secretary of the Navy and an Obama national security adviser. "It tends to emphasize the we-they character of the world, when in fact the world is more complicated than that.""
Umm, newsflash. Our way has been pretty damn successful. As soon as idiot diplomats here and in the rest of the West recognizes that one point, then we will never have a successful foreign policy and rogue democracies will always hate us.
