What Diplomacy Looks Like Posted by Ilan Goldenberg

This seems like a sensible and promising way forward on Russia.

From an anonymous U.S. official in the pool report

It was a "constant strategy on the Bush administration's part, to develop this personal rapport . .. our strategy is to develop an agenda based on interest . .. not to make the goal of these meetings to develop some kind of buddy-buddy relationship [with Russia]."

"Having said that," he went on to say, "it's worth noting there was good rapport." (Obama and Medvedev" "they have some commonalties. They're young, they're lawyers . . . have a common language, and that's not just English, it's this legal language.")

Does rapport matter? "Better to be able to talk than not," he said.

This makes sense.  It's also a lot easier when you have common interests and somewhat compatible views on issues like non-proliferation, instead of having John Bolton and Dick Cheney dictating U.S. non-proliferation policy.

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