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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-29-07 08:36 PM
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17. That's ridiculous. Here - statements side by side. Where is the contradiction?
Edited on Sun Jul-29-07 08:37 PM by Skip Intro
From OP:

Clinton said (referring to talking to heads of some of these rogue nations) "I don't see it as a sign of weakness, I see it as a sign of strength. You know our president will not talk to people he considers bad. Well there are a lot of bad actors in the world and you don't make peace with your friends. You've got to deal with your enemies, your opponents, people whose interests diverge from yours."

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From debate:

Well, I will not promise to meet with the leaders of these countries during my first year. I will promise a very vigorous diplomatic effort because I think it is not that you promise a meeting at that high a level before you know what the intentions are.

I don't want to be used for propaganda purposes. I don't want to make a situation even worse. But I certainly agree that we need to get back to diplomacy, which has been turned into a bad word by this administration.

And I will purse very vigorous diplomacy.

And I will use a lot of high-level presidential envoys to test the waters, to feel the way. But certainly, we're not going to just have our president meet with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez and, you know, the president of North Korea, Iran and Syria until we know better what the way forward would be.
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please highlight the contradiction(s).


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