what does "diplomatic sidestepping" mean?
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It means to avoid giving a firm answer. Politicians do this all the time if you watch them in a press conference.
It's a diplomatic dance that politician do all the time to avoid confronting a issue head on or to avoid a specific question. Your's a rhetorical question. You have answered it well already!
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"Sidestepping" is an act of political misfeasance. It is to avoid complaince with our sworn duties that is, in many cases, tantamount to an undeclared war: when one's allies are in trouble, and we leave them to suffer conquest, we have "sidestepped" the Treaty, thereby undermined all our other Treaties.
One case in point was the Vietnam War, started by Truman in 1946, and held in check by Eisenhower until 1960. Johnson "Sidestepped" in typical Democrat fashion by sending in ground troops to Vietnam.
Wasn't that fun?
Kennedy "sidestepped" NATO by placing missiles illegally in Turkey, that then provoked the Soviets to plant their mid-range nukes in Cuba. One more Democrat blunder, and the Soviets would have planted mushroom clouds all over our homeland. Johnson "sidestepped" eight more treaties, placing us in greater danger than even the incompetent Kennedy!
Nixon came into the White House only to find our foreign policy a shambles. He and his staff had to work 70 hours a week to straighten out that mess. For his trouble, the Democrats manipulated Watergate -- yet another typical Democrat "sidestep."
Carter bungled our foreign policy yet again: dissidents who were free in the Soviet Union suddenly found themselves in Gulags again -- because Carter failed to realize who he was dealing with.
Reagan spent 75-80 hours a week trying to un-bungle the Carter administration. That sent leftist liberals into a snivel off that nearly started WWIII. That, on four occasions: remember "Hanoi" Jane Fonda? Reagan allowed her back into the States if she told all that she knew about Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh put a price on her head, but after her embarrassment, what else was there for them to lose? That was how we managed to get on good terms with them, after the Democrats typical "sidestepping" nearly put us at war -- again.
Reagan kept us at peace. Clinton put us at war by yet more Democrat sidestepping: into a war in the Balkans to take the heat off of him for the Monica Lewinski scandal. How many American men died over that horror, and no Democrat will face up to the truth. They would rather insult us.
Bush Jr. caught five Democrats trying to sidestep treaties and called for their resignation -- one of them Obama bin Laden. The other four were civilized enough to learn the lessons of humility and loyalty. They quietly resigned.
So, now we're about to vote on the last remaining side-stepper.
I, for one, will vote for McCain.
Profitbob, sidestepping is much worse than rhetorical evasion. Sidestepping is a clearcut criminal act, and it has more than once put us at war. Honest leaders do not need to sidestep treaties or evade issues.
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