Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Republicans Have Too Much Ego For Diplomacy

I keep watching these conservative folk, totally joyless about the return of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, totally joyless in the demonstration of diplomacy, and I had an aha moment. Their egos are too large to appreciate such things as diplomacy. They can't share in the joy because they don't see Win Wins. They only see Win.
If the U.S. isn't dominating whichever country we're dealing with, they think of it as weak, appeasing or encouraging the bad guy.
Hillary Clinton was a bigger person, egoless, in this instance. North Korean leaders called her a school girl, yet she was able to defer to her husband to achieve a bigger goal.
Republicans continue to view the U.S. as the big kid on the block who tells everyone else what to do. But that's not the world we live in anymore and they haven't figured that out yet.
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