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October 1, 2009
WSJ: Obama, Dictators and democrats
Topics:Following up on what President Obama said to rogue nations in his Inaugural Address, that "We will extend a hand, if you are willing to unclench your fist," one is now drawn to ask the question: "Just many rogue nations can President Obama hold in one hand?"
Today, the WSJ tries to count:
There is something slightly weird about all this activity. If the Obama team wanted to make a really significant break from past Bush policy, it would say it was not going to just talk with the world's worst strongmen but would give equal, public status to their democratic opposition groups. Instead, the baddest actors in the world get face time with Barack Obama, but their struggling opposition gets invisibility.To cut to the chase, and putting it bluntly, we ares seeing the rogue states shove Obama's extended hand right up where the sun doesn't shine. And the Obama administrations apparent willingness to let democratic movements rise, fall and die, along with other policy failures, is only exacerbating the problem - perhaps permanently so.
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H/t - Memeorandum
Posted by Richard at October 1, 2009 7:33 AM
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