Thursday, March 19, 2009

Quickie: Beltway Views on Compromise and Negotiation

"Compromise is not treason. Negotiation is not appeasement."

"The problem with American foreign policy goes beyond George Bush. It includes a Washington establishment that has gotten comfortable with the exercise of American hegemony and treats compromise as treason and negotiations as appeasement. Other countries can have no legitimate interests of their own. The only way to deal with them is by issuing a series of maximalist demands. This is not foreign policy; it's imperial policy. And it isn't likely to work in today's world."

Ending Our Imperial Foreign Policy Fareed Zakaria │Post Global March 15, 2009

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