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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (443)	11/18/2003 6:43:13 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

Successful diplomatic negotiation requires 2-party acceptance to an agreement. It's not a diplomatic failure if agreement isn't reached, it's just a failure to get an agreement. For example, neither Bush nor Clinton could get Saddam to comply with UN resolutions. It was not a diplomatic failure on either man's part, it was Saddam's failure to agree to their terms. That said, Bush has had diplomatic success with Putin in Russia, with Liberia, with UK, Spain, Italy and Australia in the coalition, with Pakistan and others. He's even managed to get N. Korea to start talking. Obviously, he has a State Dept headed by the talented Colin Powell which does the legwork, but I think you undersell the administration's successes in this area.