Candidates' Foreign Policy Differences are Rhetorical
Charles Crain, World Politics Review | May 27, 2008
The foreign policy discussion between McCain and Obama has helped portray the former as uncompromising and the latter as visionary. ++ Since US strategy in Iraq has required diplomats to negotiate with Shiite militiamen, Sunni insurgents or Iranian counterparts for years now, the candidates' debate regarding their respective approach to negotiation is both unrealistic and hypocritical. ++ In any case, the "US avoids negotiating with terrorists and radicals simply by deciding that its interlocutors are no longer terrorists or radicals."
