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Haley and the Trump Administration’s Contempt for Diplomacy

There is no more obvious non-starter than demanding that the other side surrender before negotiations even begin.
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Our ambassador to the U.N. doesn’t understand anything about diplomacy:

Haley’s remarks are consistent with the Trump administration’s hopeless North Korea policy. She is insisting that North Korea do something it has said it will never do, and she says that it will have to do this before the U.S. begins to “take seriously” any negotiations North Korea enters into. Setting preconditions for talks is bad enough, but here Haley is setting absurd, deal-breaking preconditions that even she has to know will never be accepted.

There is no more obvious non-starter than demanding that the other side surrender before negotiations even begin. By dismissing all talks that precede denuclearization, Haley is restating the administration’s complete refusal to compromise and its utter contempt for diplomacy as a tool of statecraft. It is an exceptionally obtuse and unreasonable position to take when there is an opportunity to open negotiations with Pyongyang, and I expect that our regional allies will be as baffled as they are disturbed by it.

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