Still not convinced? Take a look at "Mr. 9/11"'s piece in foreign affairs.
Giuliani displays an utter lack of knowledge about the rest of the world, and a scant grasp on international relations theory, history, and applications. Compound that with a fanatical, misguided, and unrealistic approach to Iran, and you've got a presidential disaster.
For a more sensible and pragmatic approach to Iran, check out Fareed Zakaria's piece in Newsweek from October:
In a speech last week, Rudy Giuliani said that while the Soviet Union and China could be deterred during the cold war, Iran can't be. The Soviet and Chinese regimes had a "residual rationality," he explained. Hmm. Stalin and Mao—who casually ordered the deaths of millions of their own people, fomented insurgencies and revolutions, and starved whole regions that opposed them—were rational folk. But not Ahmadinejad, who has done what that compares? One of the bizarre twists of the current Iran hysteria is that conservatives have become surprisingly charitable about two of history's greatest mass murderers.
2 comments:
I'm happy you're back to blogging :)
It's really embarrassing talking to someone who throws out the word "Hitler" to discredit diplomacy in this delicate age of urban and guerrilla warfare, which the US has still never figured out.
These "pundits" of US history would know that if they spent more time invoking any decade of US history other than the 1940s. Instead of citing lessons from the Philippine insurrection, Korea, Vietnam, or Afghanistan, they advocate "preemptive strikes" by saying "Hitler, Hitler, Hitler", whom they conveniently forget struck first.
I agree with Frisk Me: Good to have you back, Bill.
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