So now we only meet with leaders of countries who don’t criticize our policies? That just seems totally nuts.
No, “we’ meet with all sorts of people. That’s why we have ambassadors, special envoys, and the Secretary of State. Meeting the POTUS is different. Not just every head of state or government, even of an ostensibly allied nation, automatically gets to do that. There is a very short list of people who could ask for face time with the leader of the free world and get it. (Seven of those people have an annual summit that gives them an obvious opportunity to do so.)
The rest have to earn it. Presidente del Gobierno Rodriguez may earn that meeting with President McCain, and he may not. The price of admission may be some diplomatic agreements that we’ll never even hear of. But rest assured that Mac won’t just give it away for free like 0bama has promised to do.
