Why isn’t Ripken being sent to Iraq?

During the ‘Petraeas hearings’, Crocker said he had met with Iranians and told them what we want. True dimplacy is a lot more that simply saying: ‘Osay, here’s what we want you to do.”
Not that Iran is easy, and under current conditions, they have little incentive to be cooperatice. But if our doplomacy is going to consist of merely reading them a lisit of demands. we’d be better off
not trying.

Tone deaf and oblivious is how I would describe our forays into international diplomacy.

Firing gay translators of arabic? That’s more than stupid. That’s suicidal!