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Article: Where is U.S. diplomacy?(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Byline: Robert Charles, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Reagan conservatives and devotees of George Washington's admonition against unnecessary foreign entanglements must, these days, be scratching their heads. What guides our foreign policy in 2006?
While at war, what guardrails define our diplomacy? Certainly none that big thinkers, like our Founding Fathers, Montesquieu, Metternich or even Churchill would recognize.
When do we intervene privately and when publicly with a nation we aim to persuade? Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush moved adversaries privately as often as they did ...