Quote of the Day: Foreign policy edition
Elliot Abrams points to another Obama administration “triumph” in the foreign policy arena. Our policy of “engagement” with Syria. After making all sorts of uniltateral goodwill attempts and gestures (listed by Abrams), we’ve essentially seen Syria thumb it’s nose at us. Abrams asks and answers the question, “when does “engagement” become “appeasement”?
“Engagement” constitutes “appeasement” if it fails to change Syrian conduct, and the failure to change is overlooked while the “engagement” continues and accelerates. This would not just be fooling ourselves but condoning, rewarding, and thereby inducing even more bad conduct by the Assad regime.
Which is precisely what has happened during this year of American engagement.
~McQ
But But But, I thought that every thing would be great now that we no longer had a chimpy cowboy in the white House. I was told that having a charismatic, clean and articulate black man with a Harvard law degree would have the rest of the world singing Kumbaya!
You mean it don’t work that way?
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We were told Winnie the Pooh foreign policy. Hand out honey ask for nothing in return.
yeah and its looking a lot more like pooh than win