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applegrove

(118,778 posts) Mon Sep 21, 2015, 09:49 PM Sep 2015

Santorum intends to ‘abolish the State Department’

Santorum intends to ‘abolish the State Department’

By Steve Benen at msnbc

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/santorum-intends-abolish-the-state-department

"SNIP...........

Pressed by Beck about the practicalities of firing the entire State Department, Santorum responded with a critique of the department’s single-minded focus on international diplomacy.

“It’s like, if all the tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail,” Santorum said. “Every problem that the State Department has, the answer is diplomacy. Why? Because if it’s not diplomacy, they don’t have a job.”

Hmm. So, in the mind of the former two-term senator and GOP presidential candidate, the problem with the State Department is that it’s filled with diplomats, who have a nasty habit of focusing on … diplomacy.

Santorum added that, among State Department officials “the answer is never to do anything, the answer is always to appease, to talk.”

Got it. So appeasement and diplomacy are, in Santorum’s mind, literally synonymous, and reaching diplomatic solutions has the practical effect of doing nothing.

...............SNIP"

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Santorum intends to ‘abolish the State Department’ (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2015 OP

So without diplomacy there will be no relations with other countries or war. Wow! That's applegrove Sep 2015 #1

You know, now that he mentions it... Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2015 #2

How do you get this dumb? ellisonz Sep 2015 #3

fortunately angryvet Sep 2015 #4

The Easter Bunny Aerows Sep 2015 #5

It is also that whole idea the right wing has that liberals are just as selfish applegrove Sep 2015 #6

That's some weapons grade stupid gratuitous Sep 2015 #7

he's still running? nt Javaman Sep 2015 #8

so in ricky's twisted mind there should be little or no diplomacy? spanone Sep 2015 #9

Yes. "Cowboy diplomacy" (the US doing whatever it wants to whomever it wants) is Ricky's preferred pampango Sep 2015 #10

From where -his house? malaise Sep 2015 #11

And the Defense Department, that's an appeasement word. Needs to go back to War Department Monk06 Sep 2015 #12

applegrove

(118,778 posts)

1. So without diplomacy there will be no relations with other countries or war. Wow! That's

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 21, 2015, 09:50 PM

Sep 2015

quite a plan.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

2. You know, now that he mentions it...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 21, 2015, 09:57 PM

Sep 2015

The Department of Defense is full of guys whose only answer to every problem is 'go kill people'. To blow things up, bomb them, shoot them, kill them. So maybe we should get rid of them too.

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)

3. How do you get this dumb?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 21, 2015, 10:10 PM

Sep 2015

angryvet

(181 posts)

4. fortunately

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 21, 2015, 10:38 PM

Sep 2015

he'll never have the chance. Beats me why this jerk is still hanging on.

Aerows

(39,961 posts)

5. The Easter Bunny

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 21, 2015, 10:46 PM

Sep 2015

has more chance of being elected than Santorum.

applegrove

(118,778 posts)

6. It is also that whole idea the right wing has that liberals are just as selfish

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:15 AM

Sep 2015

as CEOS. That they want diplomacy to benefit themselves with jobs. As if business and the profit motive is no different than any of the helping or service professions. There is a term for that that I have forgotten. Anyone?

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

7. That's some weapons grade stupid

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:22 AM

Sep 2015

Remind me again, how many years did Rick Santorum serve in the military? Any of his kids? Or was he protected in his stupidity by diplomacy?

Javaman

(62,534 posts)

8. he's still running? nt

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 08:51 AM

Sep 2015

spanone

(135,876 posts)

9. so in ricky's twisted mind there should be little or no diplomacy?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 08:55 AM

Sep 2015

pampango

(24,692 posts)

10. Yes. "Cowboy diplomacy" (the US doing whatever it wants to whomever it wants) is Ricky's preferred

Reply to spanone (Reply #9)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 09:01 AM

Sep 2015

method of international behavior.

That is actually a pretty common theme on the right. Why talk with other countries and consider what they want when we are big and strong enough to just tell them what we are going to do and forcing them to live with it?

malaise

(269,157 posts)

11. From where -his house?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 09:02 AM

Sep 2015

This fucking idiot won't even be in the next round of ReTHUG debates

Monk06

(7,675 posts)

12. And the Defense Department, that's an appeasement word. Needs to go back to War Department

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 09:53 AM

Sep 2015

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