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Getting What You Asked For

March 3, 2009 - 8:41 am - by Stephen Green

“I wanna talk!” said the President of the United States to the President of Iran. “Yeah, I’m just not that into you,” replied that President of Iran.

And so our President looked weak, ineffectual and unimportant.

“I wanna talk!” said the President of the United States to the President of the Russian Federation. “Yeah, I’m just not that into you,” replied the Russian President.

And so our President looked weak, ineffectual and unimportant.

This is what happens when you offer to talk to thugs without preconditions. You give them the right of first refusal, and there are few things a thug enjoys more than kicking sand in the face of a weakling.

Well, guess what? They don’t like us any better, they don’t respect us more, and our reputation is not improved. We have in fact lost respect and our reputation is diminished and who gives a load if they like us better or not? We’re the weakling, and the bullies run the playground.

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  1. 1. frank martin

    Wasnt there once a rather famous Chicago philanthropist, philosopher and saloon keeper who said “You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can from just a kind word”.

    An Italian fellow, somewhat portly. Cant remember his name…

    March 3, 2009 - 9:02 am   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. Stacy

    And the chain of dissing continues. Because Barack Obama just isn’t that into Gordon Brown.

    March 3, 2009 - 9:12 am   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. Steve Plunk

    Isn’t this exactly what the grownups expected would happen with this sort of approach? People, especially liberals, just can’t get the idea many cultures perceive this as weakness and must respond with strength. Middle eastern cultures especially only respond to power and strength.

    Expect our prestige to decline rapidly around the world.

    March 3, 2009 - 2:22 pm   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. McGehee

    They told us our troubles internationally were because of that crude cowboy George W. Bush. They promised us if Obama were elected president the world would show America the respect it deserved, because of their great respect for the new president.

    They couldn’t possibly have been wrong!!!

    Could they…?

    March 4, 2009 - 6:15 am   Link to this Comment
  5. 5. SJDinPHX

    Mr. Obama has surrounded himself with the rejects from some of our largest financial institutions. They have all ran their failed businesses SO WELL, he thought they deserved a chance to show us how they did it.
    ‘Sup wit dat ???

    March 15, 2009 - 10:33 pm   Link to this Comment