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What Are We Incentivizing Exactly?

Posted October 19th, 2009 at 11:34am in American Leadership 3 Print This Post Print This Post

It seems that every week the administration tries to find a new excuse cut and run in Afghanistan. This week the line is that without a stable government and a clear winner in the elections sending more troops to the country would be unwise. On the other hand, Secretary Clinton is about ready to roll out a new strategy on the Sudan that calls for greater US engagement with Khartoum –offering the its leaders “incentives” for good behavior.

So apparently in the Obama era, US foreign policy means being overly cautious when engaging with fledgling democracies but embracing dictatorships that practice genocide.

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3 Responses to “What Are We Incentivizing Exactly?”

  1. Freedom of Speech TX on October 19th, 2009 at 11:34am said:

    INCENTIVES FOR “GOOD BEHAVIOR”???

    The Clinton Administration through Secretary of State Madeline Albright tried this with N. Korea – look where we are at now.

    INCENTIVES = MONEY AND/OR FOOD WHICH COST MONEY.

    We are going to get taxed into oblivion in every possible way and we’re going to give “incentives” to Sudan?

    When are our supposed experts going to study history and understand that an agreement with a non-believer is not worth the paper it is written on?

    Don’t take my word, study history.

  2. Bobbie Jay on October 19th, 2009 at 11:34am said:

    without a stable government and a clear winner in the elections sending more troops to the country would be unwise?…..huh? doesn’t the military go to protect the people from government’s of no stability? This seems like a definite, clear reason for military TO GO IN! The government members excuses are infantile and dangerous.

  3. Todd, Iraq on October 19th, 2009 at 11:34am said:

    Americans will have to suck up yet another tax after another tax and so on. How are we ever going to pay for any of this, healthcare, bailouts, two wars, foreign aide, education reform and so on. We are more than 11+ Trillion in debt and that’s just for starters. The military is stretched so thin thanks to another Dumbocrat Bill Clinton and Obama’s answer is smoke and mirrors. Look at his right hand while he rips you off with his left. By the way he’s left handed so any bill he signs will be with his left hand. (haha) Anyway, the old adage “our children will be paying for it” is out the window. Now it’s our children’s great grand children’s children will still be paying for all of this nonsense. Wake America if we don’t start doing something now and “Change” in 2010/2012 it will be to late.

    Just A Point of View

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