(Community Matters) I’m flabbergasted by the quick-to-doubt press. Have we become so expectant of grandstanding and bravado by American political figures that we mistake a failure to do so for weakness?
What if Pres Obama decided on another approach to engaging China as an economic partner, as a partner containing Iran/N. Korea, and on their human rights practices. Golly gee, what if he talked about these things in private with his hosts instead of grandstanding for the media. Any chance this might yield different results? We’ve seen the grandstanding and what it’s yielded over the years. And, since BHO was in China, word is leaking out from there that he did bring up human rights issues.
Forwarded by David Gail, a perspective from the Atlantic Post http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/11/manufactured_failure_2_the_pre.php
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