Kevin Drum notes that, after reviewing Rudy Giuliani’s big foreign policy paper, even a conservative like James Joyner, a former Giuliani supporter, is worried about Rudy’s sanity. Joyner calls it “dangerously stupid:”
I must concur in Matt Yglesias‘ judgment: “this man is batshit insane.”…
Unfortunately, the more I learn about Giuliani, the less I like him. His chief advantage, the sense that he’s a grown-up who will take a pragmatic but aggressive role in fighting the Islamist terrorists, is undermined by his unserious pandering….
The “Terrorists’ War on Us” label is annoying but, again, probably smart campaign politics. I can abide sloganeering. But the approach he lays out for fighting it seems designed to exacerbate it. Indeed, it seems he intentionally picked out the worst parts of the foreign policies of George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter….
What’s worse is that some team of experts actually wrote this, not Giuliani himself. So this has been filtered and edited and focus grouped so as to appeal to a wider audience. So, Giuliani’s real views are probably much crazier. Just think how well he’d make decisions during an actual crisis!
Jim Henley has by far the most amusing synopsis of this piece I’ve seen thus far; I commend it to your in its entirety. The best line:
You will not enjoy a day of peace so long as Rudy has anything to say about it. Peace is something we will “achieve” in the distant future when the lion has been clubbed senseless with the lamb.
I’m working on an in-depth series of posts on Giuliani’s foreign policy team, which will begin in the next few days. In the meantime, read all of Joyner’s post, which goes into detail and links to a number of other reviews worth reading. It’s beginning to look like Rudy really is certifiably nuts.
2 Responses to “Conservatives AND Liberals Reject Giuliani’s “Dangerously Stupid” Foreign Policy Plans”
“Dangerously Stupid,” or, in other words, Four More Years!
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Looking forward to your indepth series! There are soooo many things I don’t like about Rudy already that weakness here will be fatal. Romney is looking better all the time.
Left by MJN
August 17, 2007 at 1:18am