All Hat, No Cattle
Or in the case of Condi Rice, all Chanel, no diplomacy. Condi manages to look great despite the fact that she is, proverbially, shooting blanks. I don't look as good in haute couture as does Condi, but the Leo strategy on foreign policy might have made us better off. Namely: 1. Send angry NY firefighters to get Osama at Tora Bora instead of outsourcing it to the corrupt Nothern Alliance, which was bought off. I would have gone there myself to get that bastard. Osama haunts us to this day and we had plenty of troops available to finish him off.
2. Don't invade Iraq. Don't even think about this, as it provides no strategic benefits and would serve as a recruiting call to jihadists.
3. Accept the overtures of the moderate government in Iran in 2002 and engage them. Iran is a surprisingly Western-friendly country (or was) and by snubbing the moderate we paved the way for extremism. Plus, they have a lot of oil.
4. Don't close the US embassy in Syria. Diplomacy is, actually, important.


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