http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/11/standard-operating-procedure/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:17:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/11/standard-operating-procedure/#comment-32265 Kyle Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:17:41 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=11358#comment-32265 You didn't hear it from me, but Russia is planning to stab Austria in Spring 1902 You didn’t hear it from me, but Russia is planning to stab Austria in Spring 1902

]]> http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/11/standard-operating-procedure/#comment-32212 trizzlor Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:50:34 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=11358#comment-32212 YES! This is a pervasive problem in modern political punditry. It gets particularly frustrating when a defensive act by another nation is seen as provocative and grounds for retaliation just because it doesn't align with our own best interests. This goes hand in hand with the conventional wisdom that good diplomacy just involves Obama going around to other nations, being rude to their leaders, and insulting their people ... anything else is a "stinging rebuke" of America's "outstretched hand". YES! This is a pervasive problem in modern political punditry. It gets particularly frustrating when a defensive act by another nation is seen as provocative and grounds for retaliation just because it doesn’t align with our own best interests. This goes hand in hand with the conventional wisdom that good diplomacy just involves Obama going around to other nations, being rude to their leaders, and insulting their people … anything else is a “stinging rebuke” of America’s “outstretched hand”.

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