Дипломатия ж бывает разная. К примеру - холодная война с обзыванием другого "evil empire" - тоже дипломатия. Насчет базара - чем мягче политик, тем больше базара - такая вот закономерность имеется. Когда идет жесткая линия - базара обычно меньше, ибо бесполезно разоряться.AnyaGal wrote:late_morning_girl wrote:А что ж такого несовместимого?AnyaGal wrote:Что ж буду рада, если вы окажетесь правы.
Только с одной сторону дипломатическая часть, а с другой стороны "Хрен им" и "Что б базару не было".
Ка это удасться совместить
Ну мне лично кажется что это плохо сочетается.
AnyaGal wrote:Сразу после выборов, сначала Ашкрофт еще с кем-то, сегодня по радио услышала, что Колин Пауэл уходит, а на его место метит Кондолиза райс, и если ее на этот пост не возьмут, то она тоже уйдет.
Сказали, что может и Рамсфельд уйдет.
Я не очень разбираюсь в названиях их должностей, но может кто-нибудь пояснит кто за что отвечал?
Ашкрофт вроде был типа Генерального Прокурора, кто был второй (Еванс(?)) и за что отвечал Колин Пауэл?
Ну и главное - почему они уходят? Не хотят нести ответственность за то, что может начаться и разгребать всю кашу? Или наоборот их как бы попросили уйти чтобы взять людей более подходящих?
Condi cannot be trusted. I talk to a few black friends, including black women. All of them have negative opinion about Condi, and, of course, don't recognize her as a member of the black community. She will not give ultimatums to anybody. She's chosen to this post as a puppet, and will do anything, in detail, what she would be told to do by Cheney and Rumsfeld (Dubya will be at his rancho)..AnyaGal wrote:Ну другие люди в Кабинете тоже не дураки (по крайней мере я на это надеюсь).
как бы умный is a must, а все остальное is optional.
Сейчас выбрали супер жесткого, что мне не нравится, потому как внешняя политика тоже.
Посмотрим что будет дальше.
И все-такие, есть ли пример человека, который получил пост поставив ультиматум?
Christopher wrote:Condi cannot be trusted. I talk to a few black friends, including black women. All of them have negative opinion about Condi, and, of course, don't recognize her as a member of the black community. She will not give ultimatums to anybody. She's chosen to this post as a puppet, and will do anything, in detail, what she would be told to do by Cheney and Rumsfeld (Dubya will be at his rancho)..AnyaGal wrote:Ну другие люди в Кабинете тоже не дураки (по крайней мере я на это надеюсь).
как бы умный is a must, а все остальное is optional.
Сейчас выбрали супер жесткого, что мне не нравится, потому как внешняя политика тоже.
Посмотрим что будет дальше.
И все-такие, есть ли пример человека, который получил пост поставив ультиматум?
late_morning_girl wrote:Когда идет жесткая линия - базара обычно меньше, ибо бесполезно разоряться.
Alice in wonderland wrote:Christopher wrote:AnyaGal wrote:..
She is not a typical member of black community. That's for sure!
Christopher wrote:I was saying that Powell is a very experienced and Respected member of international political community, he has cut a lot of good deals for America. And Condi is just a puppet.
Opinion of black people about the national security advisor, based on her "blackness", is at best irrelevant. If the opinion was formed chiefly based on her credentials, than I fail to see the point in acknowledging that your _black_ friends do not trust her. Don't take it the wrong way - my only point is that the fact that your friends are black has absolutely no bearing on this discussion.Christopher wrote:I don't know what is typical. I do have a big respect for my black friends who happen to be very nice people. I was saying that Powell is a very experienced and Respected member of international political community, he has cut a lot of good deals for America. And Condi is just a puppet.
I agree that Condi is qualified. So far, major criticisms I've read of Condi have to do with the fact that she is too closely allied with the president (it may serve as a benefint during negotiations, as it will be recognized that she speaks on his behalf /this opinion is from Belgravian Dispatch/). Another opinion (forget from where) seems to do with her close alighnment with Sharon's policies. Let's face it (and this point was well made in "The Control Room") nowadays everything is about Palestine and Israel. So,the point the blogger was making was that Condi can not be impartial and fair - something that's needed in order to marshall the peace process.aas996 wrote:Christopher wrote:I was saying that Powell is a very experienced and Respected member of international political community, he has cut a lot of good deals for America. And Condi is just a puppet.
All cabinet members serve at the pleasure of the President and, in that sense,
are his puppets. Condi has a tremendous foreign policy and national security experience (both academic and practical) and, unlike Powell, speaks several foreign languages (one, BTW, being Russian).
I saw Lawrence Eagleburger on CNN Monday evening say that he thought Condi Rice was not right for Secretary of State because she had been in the White House for four years and, he implied, would be incapable of offering George W. Bush independent advice. Eagleburger was secretary of state very briefly at the end of the Bush senior administration, succeeding James Baker, with whom he continued to have an association. Eagleburger has been critical of the Neoconservatives, and I suspect he feels that Dr. Rice will be no counterweight to them whatsoever.
Rice seems to me to have two major drawbacks as Secretary of State beyond her inability to challenge Bush's pet projects. One is that she is an old Soviet hand who still thinks in Cold War terms. She focuses on states and does not understand the threat of al-Qaeda, nor does she understand or empathize with Middle Easterners, about whom she appears to know nothing after all this time. The other drawback is that she is virtually a cheerleader for Ariel Sharon and will not be an honest broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Powell was much more fair on such issues, though he wasn't exactly pro-Palestinian either. Of course, with Elliot Abrams as the national security council staffer in charge of Arab-Israeli things, you might as well have Sharon just run US Middle East policy himself.
