Obama wants 'tough' foreign policy
Barack Obama has advocated "tough, thoughtful and realistic" foreign policy for the US.
By Agencies |
| Barack Obama | |
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has advocated "tough, thoughtful and realistic" foreign policy for the US, and said that an open-ended commitment by Washington on Iraq was a "strategic mistake".
"...I think that we have to have a clear sense of what our values are and what our ideals are. I don���t think that we should shy away from being straight with the Russians about human rights violations," Obama said in an interview.
"We should not shy away from talking to the Chinese about those same subjects ... We have to be tough negotiators with them when it comes to critical issues," he said.
"We have to engage and get them involved and brought into dealing with some of these transnational problems. And that kind of tough, thoughtful, realistic diplomacy used to be a bipartisan hallmark of US foreign policy.
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