Another damn fine reason to sent her on the boot'n'ass express. :eyes:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/123509-odonnell-aspires-to-be-foreign-relations-panelistO'Donnell wants Foreign Relations seat
By Darren Goode - 10/09/10 12:52 PM ET
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“Perhaps as a U.S. Senator sitting on the Foreign Relations Committee, I will,” she added. “That’s what … I would love that.”
She said there are also those who think Iran is “making threats that aren’t backed up.” She referenced the foreign policy of former President Ronald Reagan. “His foreign policy was summed up in four words – We win, they lose,” she said. “And he did that by not backing down, by not compromising, by strengthening our military and making it once again that the threat of military action, U.S. military action, had some teeth to it. Right now, it doesn’t, and that’s tragic.”
O’Donnell said the key to dealing with Iran is improving relations with Israel. “I don’t believe that this administration has been as friendly and supportive to Israel as America could be and as America should be,” she said. President Obama, she said, has “scolded” Israel over the country’s openness to a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities amid Iranian threats to both Israel and the U.S.
“You don’t scold one of our allies for doing what they need to do in their own national interest,” O’Donnell said.
She also said now may not be the right time to set up a timetable for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan because terrorists would see that as a sign of weakness. “We have to make our foreign policy decisions based on effectiveness, not on a timetable,” O’Donnell said. “So if we withdraw now just because they're bullying us even harder, think of the consequences on what that will do to our own forces back here. The best offense -- or the best defense is a strong offense. So we have to strengthen our U.S. military once again.”