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Hillary welcomes Mutassim Qadhafi

Hillary welcomes Mutassim Qadhafi

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Is this embarrassing to the Obama administration or what?

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/04/121993.htm

Families of pan am flight 103 victims were outraged.
Is there any excuse for this?

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You're digging this up from 2009? Going back into the archives I guess.

Sometimes you have to talk to people who you don't like - it's diplomacy.

Like how GWB made a deal with Qaddafi in order to get them to get rid of their nuclear program.

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That the one with the shiny brown suit? Gotta get me one.

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Originally posted by PsychoPawn
You're digging this up from 2009? Going back into the archives I guess.

Sometimes you have to talk to people who you don't like - it's diplomacy.

Like how GWB made a deal with Qaddafi in order to get them to get rid of their nuclear program.
Then why not invite representatives from Iran and North Korea?

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Originally posted by Metal Brain
Then why not invite representatives from Iran and North Korea?
I would have no problem with Hillary Clinton meeting with representatives from either North Korea or Iran.

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Originally posted by PsychoPawn
I would have no problem with Hillary Clinton meeting with representatives from either North Korea or Iran.
Do you think Hillary would say she was delighted to have them here too?

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Originally posted by PsychoPawn

Sometimes you have to talk to people who you don't like - it's diplomacy.
There is, however, a difference between diplomacy and actively supporting a regime.

Oil and secularism (albeit a peculiar sort) have blurred the West's ability to define between the two in Libya.

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Originally posted by Metal Brain
Do you think Hillary would say she was delighted to have them here too?
Yes. She shouldn't say "Geez I freaking HATE this guy!!!"

That wouldn't put a very positive note to start their talks on would it?

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Originally posted by shavixmir
There is, however, a difference between diplomacy and actively supporting a regime.

Oil and secularism (albeit a peculiar sort) have blurred the West's ability to define between the two in Libya.
I agree. Metal seemed to only be referring to this incident where she was talking to him.

I don't know how you see secularism as being an issue though.

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Originally posted by PsychoPawn
I don't know how you see secularism as being an issue though.
The US would rather have secularism and a brutal dictator than an Islamic state.
Similarly they prefer brutal capitalist dictators to communism.
Or at least that is what they pretend. In reality they prefer brutal dictators to anything else because that allows the highest amount of corruption and cheap oil.

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They're all gas stations for the USA.

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Originally posted by PsychoPawn
Yes. She shouldn't say "Geez I freaking HATE this guy!!!"

That wouldn't put a very positive note to start their talks on would it?
First they need to be invited. Something that has not been done. Kind of pointless if it never happens.

Hypocrite policy.

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Originally posted by PsychoPawn
I agree. Metal seemed to only be referring to this incident where she was talking to him.

I don't know how you see secularism as being an issue though.
Using a secular (sort of) regime as a buffer against Islamic motivated regimes and groups ... no matter how, uh, dubious the regime is.