Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

A Willingness To Talk

Obama-Clinton Debate Starts Warm, Heats Up – washingtonpost.com
In the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s resignation, the two debated Cuba policy and whether they would meet the island nation’s new leader without preconditions. Clinton said no and Obama said yes, but he added that he would do so only with plenty of preparation.

And that’s a perfect example of why Obama would be a better president.

You can’t begin a meaningful dialog by setting a bunch of preconditions before you’re even willing to talk to the other guy. That’s not how real diplomacy works. What you’ve got to do is sit down with the other party without preconditions and start talking. And talk. And talk. And eventually, you find something you can agree on. And you build from there. It’s hard work but it’s the only way of creating the conditions necessary for lasting, positive change.

Clinton, apparently, would continue the same hard-ass policy that the Bush administration has so spectacularly demonstrated doesn’t work.

That alone is why she shouldn’t become president. There can be no peace without a willingness to simply talk.