Happy Go Lucky Huckabee

Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, just a happy go lucky guy, cheerfully displaying less knowledge of US-Cuban relations than the average citizen. The gaffes keep growing. Analysis and video at HotAir.

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“We haven’t had diplomatic relations with Iran in almost 30 years, my whole adult life and a lot of good it’s done. Putting this in human terms, all of us know that when we stop talking to a parent or a sibling or a friend, it’s impossible to accomplish anything, impossible to resolve differences and move the relationship forward. The same is true for countries.”

This is the kernel of Huckabee’s foreign policy. He wants to anthropomorphize international relations and bring a Christian commitment to the Golden Rule to our affairs with other nations. As he told the Des Moines Register the other day, “You treat others the way you’d like to be treated. That’s to me the fundamental issue that has to be re-established in our dealings with other countries.”

This is deeply naïve. Countries aren’t people, and the world is more dangerous than a Sunday church social. Threats, deception, and — as a last resort — violence must play a role in international relations. Differences cannot always be worked out through sweet persuasion. A U.S. president who doesn’t realize this will repeat the experience of President Jimmy Carter at his most ineffectual.

I would only add that in Iran Christians are persecuted, churches closed, leaders tortured and assassinated and any converts sentenced to death.

UPDATE: Huckabee liked to grant a lot of pardons as governor. A personal appeal often worked. Here's one that stuck out, though not the most egregious:

_Robert A. Arnold Jr., who was convicted of killing his father-in-law. Arnold's father, a former mayor of Hope, Huckabee's hometown, said he was a casual friend of the governor.

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