The talking cure: if elected, Kerry would fight terrorism with diplomacy, not war. But can diplomacy win?(Diplomacy & Terrorism)
American Prospect, The, August, 2004 by Secor, Laura
PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL JOHN KERRY SEEMS IN MANY WAYS the perfect foreign-policy foil to President George W. Bush. Educated partly in Switzerland and fluent in French, Kerry is the son of a diplomat who worked intensively with U.S. allies during the early Cold War. And so Kerry inherited the vision of a world rife with complexity and susceptible to reason--one where the power of diplomacy was an article of faith, even while military solutions couldn't be discounted.
Kerry touts a "bold, progressive internationalism" in his foreign-policy speeches, and in his statements on ...
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