Blatant Reality

With 2008 bringing changes not only in the United States’ leadership but also the Russian leadership, it is important to hear what the potential presidential candidates have to say concerning Russia. The candidates’ take on Russia is especially important now that the Russian government under Putin has been steadily moving away from democratic rule. Combine this with the fact that Russia has been contracted to build nuclear reactors in Iran and possibly sell them an air defense system and you got a major foreign policy issue.

The only real interesting thing I found in this article was Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy plan concerning Russia. From what was said in the article, Hillary obviously can’t grasp that the policies inside Russia’s borders have an affect their foreign policy. I deduce this from the following quote from the Boston Globe cited in this article:

In the wide-ranging interview, the senator, a Democrat of New York, also said her policy on Russia would focus on influencing that nation’s role in the world rather than trying to halt its internal move away from democracy. She would seek Russia’s help negotiating with Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons program, she said, and try to prevent Russia from “being a problem in the Middle East” or bullying its neighbors.

 

“I’m interested in what Russia does outside its borders first,” she said. “I don’t think I can, as the president of the United States, wave my hand and tell the Russian people they should have a different government.”

Yea, and at this rate the Russian people won’t have much say about their government either. Who would have thought that Hillary would be the one to support a dictator as long as they would support the United States?