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Mike Huckabee on Iran
« on: December 12, 2007, 11:31:21 AM »
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjM3Zjg5NWYxOGRkNzdmOWY3ZTU4ODQ2OGEyMzRkZmU=#more

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Huckabee did give a long speech on foreign policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in September. It combined a superficial rendering of conventional foreign-policy wisdom — which of course included many unfair criticisms of President Bush — with Huckabee’s inimitable folksy delivery. The former governor’s bottom line was that we should be nicer to other countries.

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On Iran, Huckabee is at his most troubling. He accuses the administration of “proceeding down only one track with Iran: armed confrontation.” This is false, and the kind of rhetoric you’d expect from DailyKos bloggers, not a Republican presidential candidate. Huckabee thinks it has been a lack of diplomatic engagement that has soured our relations with Iran: “We haven’t had diplomatic relations with Iran in almost 30 years, my whole adult life and a lot of good it’s done. Putting this in human terms, all of us know that when we stop talking to a parent or a sibling or a friend, it’s impossible to accomplish anything, impossible to resolve differences and move the relationship forward. The same is true for countries.”

This is the kernel of Huckabee’s foreign policy. He wants to anthropomorphize international relations and bring a Christian commitment to the Golden Rule to our affairs with other nations. As he told the Des Moines Register the other day, “You treat others the way you’d like to be treated. That’s to me the fundamental issue that has to be re-established in our dealings with other countries.”

This is deeply naïve. Countries aren’t people, and the world is more dangerous than a Sunday church social. Threats, deception, and — as a last resort — violence must play a role in international relations. Differences cannot always be worked out through sweet persuasion. A U.S. president who doesn’t realize this will repeat the experience of President Jimmy Carter at his most ineffectual.

Other than the general impulse to be nicer, Huckabee’s views are the uneven grab bag to be expected from someone who hasn’t thought much about foreign policy.

With Huckabee as President, it looks like we won't see any action on Iran, folks.

Here's what blogger Ace of Spades has to say:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/249040.php

 

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Re: Mike Huckabee on Iran
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2007, 11:33:55 AM »
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjM3Zjg5NWYxOGRkNzdmOWY3ZTU4ODQ2OGEyMzRkZmU=#more

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Huckabee did give a long speech on foreign policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in September. It combined a superficial rendering of conventional foreign-policy wisdom — which of course included many unfair criticisms of President Bush — with Huckabee’s inimitable folksy delivery. The former governor’s bottom line was that we should be nicer to other countries.

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On Iran, Huckabee is at his most troubling. He accuses the administration of “proceeding down only one track with Iran: armed confrontation.” This is false, and the kind of rhetoric you’d expect from DailyKos bloggers, not a Republican presidential candidate. Huckabee thinks it has been a lack of diplomatic engagement that has soured our relations with Iran: “We haven’t had diplomatic relations with Iran in almost 30 years, my whole adult life and a lot of good it’s done. Putting this in human terms, all of us know that when we stop talking to a parent or a sibling or a friend, it’s impossible to accomplish anything, impossible to resolve differences and move the relationship forward. The same is true for countries.”

This is the kernel of Huckabee’s foreign policy. He wants to anthropomorphize international relations and bring a Christian commitment to the Golden Rule to our affairs with other nations. As he told the Des Moines Register the other day, “You treat others the way you’d like to be treated. That’s to me the fundamental issue that has to be re-established in our dealings with other countries.”

This is deeply naïve. Countries aren’t people, and the world is more dangerous than a Sunday church social. Threats, deception, and — as a last resort — violence must play a role in international relations. Differences cannot always be worked out through sweet persuasion. A U.S. president who doesn’t realize this will repeat the experience of President Jimmy Carter at his most ineffectual.

Other than the general impulse to be nicer, Huckabee’s views are the uneven grab bag to be expected from someone who hasn’t thought much about foreign policy.

With Huckabee as President, it looks like we won't see any action on Iran, folks.

Here's what blogger Ace of Spades has to say:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/249040.php

 

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Re: Mike Huckabee on Iran
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2007, 11:34:52 AM »
Huckabee for open borders, releasing rapists and not knowing anything about forum policy
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Re: Mike Huckabee on Iran
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2007, 11:41:22 AM »
He has little experience on these issues. 

He said that after 9/11, Iran wanted to be allies with the US against the Taliban.

I mentioned that to Chaim in an "Ask JTF" thread in September but I don't recall if he agreed/disagreed with what Huckabee stated. 

Anyone know if what Huckabee's statement had any accuracy.  I doubt it.     


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Re: Mike Huckabee on Iran
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2007, 11:43:11 AM »
He said that after 9/11, Iran wanted to be allies with the US against the Taliban.
They may well have done, Iran are Shia, the Taliban are Sunni.

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Re: Mike Huckabee on Iran
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2007, 12:09:05 PM »
He said that after 9/11, Iran wanted to be allies with the US against the Taliban.
They may well have done, Iran are Shia, the Taliban are Sunni.

funny how muSSlims hate other muSSlim nazi sects and kill each other.. ;D ;D

every other passage in the KKKoran is KKKill KKKill KKKill!

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Re: Mike Huckabee on Iran
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2007, 01:41:51 PM »
He said that after 9/11, Iran wanted to be allies with the US against the Taliban.
They may well have done, Iran are Shia, the Taliban are Sunni.

funny how muSSlims hate other muSSlim nazi sects and kill each other.. ;D ;D

every other passage in the KKKoran is KKKill KKKill KKKill!

Is Metalikkka muslim?
Turkey must get out of NATO. NATO must get out of Kosovo-Serbia. Croats must get out of Crajina. All muslims must get out of Christian and Jewish land. Turks must get out of Cyprus. Turks must get out of "Istanbul". "Palestinians" must get out of Israel. Israel must become independent from USA.

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Re: Mike Huckabee on Iran
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2007, 01:44:31 PM »
He said that after 9/11, Iran wanted to be allies with the US against the Taliban.
They may well have done, Iran are Shia, the Taliban are Sunni.

funny how muSSlims hate other muSSlim nazi sects and kill each other.. ;D ;D

every other passage in the KKKoran is KKKill KKKill KKKill!

Is Metalikkka muslim?

what do you think? ::)

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Re: Mike Huckabee on Iran
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2007, 01:50:00 PM »
I think yes
Turkey must get out of NATO. NATO must get out of Kosovo-Serbia. Croats must get out of Crajina. All muslims must get out of Christian and Jewish land. Turks must get out of Cyprus. Turks must get out of "Istanbul". "Palestinians" must get out of Israel. Israel must become independent from USA.

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Re: Mike Huckabee on Iran
« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2007, 10:57:26 PM »
Huckabee is ok, he would take action when necessary, anyway its 2 years before anyone would be in office, by the time Iran would have Nukes, its up to this regime to take care of Iran
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