Giuliani reaching to the wrong audiences
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 4:00AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: "Giuliani Visit to London Aims to Bolster Credentials," by Mary Jacoby, Wall Street Journal, 20 September 2007, p. A7.

Selling old Thatcher lines ("isn't a time to go wobbly") for pre-emptive war, resurrecting the ancient bit about Israel joining NATO ( and suggesting a bunch of Asian countries too, one supposes, to save them from Chinese domination), and tying it all off with a promise to bomb Iran if that's what it takes to stop them from getting nukes (promising only to set back their program a few years).

It just all comes off as too quaint by half.

Out macho-ing the macho promises of others isn't the way to sell his brand of foreign policy experience.

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