[quote=Clip-Clop;892239]Good speech, as always. Nice tribute to Stevens.
"Now let me be clear, just as we cannot solve every problem in the world, the United States has not, and will not, seek to dictate the outcome of democratic transitions abroad."
This one says he needs to bone up on his US history though...[/QUOTE]
welllllll..kind of a grey area there.
we try to dictate fair elections, but i don't know that we've tried to dictate the outcome-that wouldn't exactly be fair.
egypt is an example. we wanted them to have free and fair elections-but i doubt the state dept wanted to see the muslim br'hood get a majority. in that regard, we don't dictate.
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