Has Anyone Read Gingrich's FP Article?

[LoneStarLiberal]

<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/story.php?storyID=13742&PHPSESSID=f14f8277b373f636043654323ed32981>

What a howler!

Reading this article leaves me to believe that Gingrich is actually a lousier commentator on foreign policy than Ann Coulter! This one makes Jesse Helms' article in Foreign Affairs a few years back look positively intellectual.

Apparently Newt is upset because American diplomacy has failed the President and the only way to fix it is to turn the Foreign Service into a propaganda mouthpiece for the Oval Office and run everyone out of Foggy Bottom who doesn't toe the official line from the White House.

Did he hit his head on something immediately before writing this? Maybe have a bad reaction to some meds? Leave it to a freedom-hating cretin like Gingrich to to advocate something as ignorant as turning the Foreign Service into a mouthpiece for a President who makes no bones about not wanting to know and not caring about the rest of the world. I particularly like the following quote from the article's sidebar of suggested reforms:

"An appropriate training program would highlight the strategies the U.S. government is following both to make the United States safer and to increase security, health, prosperity, and freedom worldwide."

Hmmm...perhaps the reason we don't have a FS full of moutpieces for these policies is because they are laughable if they exist at all. Great way of blaming the messenger for not having a message to deliver.

In conclusion, I think the Georgia Squealer needs to stick to something he has a clue about if he wants to be taken seriously in print instead of recycling previous commentary. I give it two thumbs up for sheer comedy and for showing all of us the breathy sanctimony that passes for American Enterprise Institute foreign policy (since they gave him the chance to mouth his way through this doggrel). Do those clowns take one VW Bug or two to the Big Top?

And no, in case you are interested, I do not work for the Department of State.

[bemildred]

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