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Not Appeasement: How to change the way the world views US war efforts
Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Author(s): Shelby Steele
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Topic: International relations (Diplomacy)
Keywords: Foreign Policy; International Relations
Type: Brief
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
As the world sees it, America tends to dash off to war without moral authority. After a Democratic debate in the Fall of 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama proclaimed that were he to become president, he would talk directly even to America’s worst enemies. Few Americans would be comfortable with direct talks between our president and extremist leaders such as Ahmadinejad. Would such talks ever be a good idea?
This essay appeared in the Wall Street Journal on November 26, 2007.