[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11994]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       A CALL FOR A NEW DIPLOMACY

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, if you had a friend who anytime he took 
the car out for a drive got in a wreck, if you really cared about your 
friend and others, you would take away the car keys. Nearly every time 
this administration takes the U.S. for a drive out in the world, it 
crashes the car. Look at Iraq: no diplomacy, confrontation, attack, 
occupation. Iran: no diplomacy, confrontation. North Korea: no 
diplomacy, threats, confrontation, even when they are preparing a 
missile test.
  Instead of a national missile defense system which doesn't work 
protecting us against a North Korea missile of dubious accuracy, we 
should look at talking with them. North Korea wants direct talks. Well, 
talk to them. Don't crash the car.
  America must be able to negotiate in a complex world without 
confrontation and creating enemies. You are either with us or against 
us or bring it on? That is not a path towards successful diplomacy.
  There is a basic flaw in America's world view and this 
administration's world view. This, then, is a call for a new diplomacy, 
policies where we look at potential adversaries as potential allies, 
and then acting upon that vision.

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