Nicholas Burns Comes Out For Obama’s Foreign Policy
I’ve written before about how much I’ve loved Nicholas Burns. He’s the guy, who, when people try to revive the repuation of the Bush administration (or at least its second term) will be looked over as the man who was actually resposible for any foreign policy sucesses. He was, of course, always opposed by Bush apointees like John Bolton and Dick Cheney, but credit will flow up to Bush nonetheless. He’s since retired from the State Department, and has written an essay for Newsweek endorsing the Obama foreign policy approach, specifically in regards to talking to ones enemies.
It’s not surprising that Burns is an Obama supporter – he, after all, was the man responsible for enemy talking-to during his tenure as number three in the State Department. The sad thing is that he probably won’t be part of the Obama administration. I think he’d make a fantastic UN Ambassador or maybe even Secretary of State. But he left government because he wanted to pay his three daughters’ college bills, so I doubt any post will be able to pay him more than his former State Department role. The least he can do is write essays in popular magazines criticizing McCain’s approach to negotiation and foreign policy. Good for him.
