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Aug 3, 2007, 11:33 pm
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 Hot Lava Posts: 1,660 | Hezbollah, A Role Model for American Diplomacy? Yes, you read the title correctly. Hezbollah could teach America a few lessons about winning hearts and minds. That's what presidential candidate Mitt Romney said publicly a few days ago: Romney: Did you notice in Lebanon, what Hezbollah did? Lebanon became a democracy some time ago and while their government was getting underway, Hezbollah went into southern Lebanon and provided health clinics to some of the people there, and schools. And they built their support there by having done so. That kind of diplomacy is something that would help America become stronger around the world and help people understand that our interest is an interest towards modernity and goodness and freedom for all people in the world. And so, I want to see America carry out that kind of health diplomacy Crooks and Liars Mitt Romney Sez Hezbollah Style Diplomacy Would Be Good For America As one might expect, Mitt's friends in America's conservative movement are less than thrilled with the Hezbollah social model, which is basically universal health care. The Corner on National Review Online Perhaps Mitt went a bit overboard on this one. Why go to Lebanon for a health care strategy when a popular model already exists next door in Canada? Republicans must be slightly confused about Romney these days. |
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Aug 4, 2007, 01:38 am
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| 9/11: Inside Job  Location: Hawai'i, Big Island Posts: 10,444 | Hizbullah stands up against foreign invaders, too. That's what I call patriotic... "Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense." -- John Adams |
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Aug 4, 2007, 07:45 pm
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| BANNED Location: Ohio Province, Rep. of Comerica Posts: 7,320 | Quote:
Yeah, I bet Hezbollah doesn't have an active committee looking to export Lebanese jobs to Asia, and the Third World to maximize profits either. I would also wager they don't have Special Interest groups undermining their system with bribes, and secret deals? | |
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Aug 5, 2007, 04:41 am
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 Throbbing Member  Location: Old Europe Posts: 7,131 | Quote:
When the Republicans (Nixon) got back into power, they tried to get rid of the programme. Then Carter promoted it again. Reagan, naturally, saw it as a means of lining his business buddies' pockets. Etc. Obviously, if the US sent something other than bombs into places like the Middle East, it might start repairing some of the incredible damage that the Busheviks have done to its image around the world. The sort of damage that made me think, when I saw this thread's title: "Wait a sec, American diplomacy is a contradiction in terms." "I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything." -- Viscount Melbourne | |
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