Here’s a new one…or maybe not!

LFWB_dad
Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:55:37 +0000

What a moron.

The guy clearly doesn’t get the nexus between diplomacy and military strength. There is a reason that all the senior career diplomats at State spend considerable time at the service’s War Colleges.

The US diplomat who faced down Milosevic and now is charged with managing the six party talks regarding disarming N. Korea started his career in the Peace Corps, but also this spring was honored as the first non-military distinguished graduate of the Naval War College.

He told me all the negotiating skills in the world would not have done him a bit of good without the real threat of force backing it up. Diplomacy works, but its only one part of the whole package of keeping the peace.

BTW, when was the last time we heard anything from Khadafi in Libya? If I recall correctly, it was right after we sent his buddy scurrying into a hole somewhere hiding like a rat. And when we did hear from him he announced he was disarming and would play by the world’s rules. That was some serious diplomacy.

Tell your coworker its better to say nothing and be thought of as a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.