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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (264384)	8/31/2008 3:55:07 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793532

This is quite apt today: Re: Foreign Affairs Experience [John O'Sullivan] Friday, August 29, 2008 corner.nationalreview.com Since Andy has more or less invited me to second his comment on foreign policy "experience," let me do so. He's broadly right. Mrs. Thatcher had little experience of foreign policy on becoming Tory party leader. She knew it and immediately contacted those experts whose general outlook she trusted. Robert Conquest was, I think, the first such expert she recruited, and she continued to see him regularly during and after her premiership. She also asked the historian Hugh Thomas, now Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, to get together a group of like-minded foreign policy people whom she consulted as a kind of counterweight to Foreign Office caution. From her second term onwards she relied very heavily on the advice of Charles Powell, an independent-minded Foreign Office official who combined diplomatic expertise with firm opinions similar to those of his boss. And, knowing her own original lack of expertise, she threw herself into mastering the full range of international issues. Of course, it helped that she was extremely brilliant, hard-working, initially cautious but decisive, tough-minded, brave, and determined. So, yes Andy, you can start out by not being experienced in foreign policy. The test then becomes: Show me your advisors and I will tell you what you are

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (264384)	8/31/2008 3:58:55 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793532

Kerry Inaccurate (and Incoherent) on Palin [Jonathan Adler] Appearing on ABC's "This Week" this morning, Sen. John Kerry labeled John McCain a "radical" because he picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Asked to defend this charge, he compared her to Dick Cheney, (wrongly) accused her of not believing in anthropogenic global warming, and then said the pick was irresponsible because she has no experience in foreign affairs. Hmmm . . . how much foreign policy experience did John Edwards have? corner.nationalreview.com