McCain and Orban

2014. december 13. 09:19

At the moment it is McCain who has done more to damage relations with Hungary than anything the unqualified nominee could have done while in Budapest.

2014. december 13. 09:19
Daniel Larison

“If McCain had only made some »critical remarks,« the Hungarian government might not have summoned our envoy to lodge a complaint about what he said. As it happens, McCain seems to have called Orban a »neofascist dictator,« and unsurprisingly Orban was not pleased by this distorted and misleading characterization. Orban is an elected nationalist leader with some authoritarian tendencies, and the U.S. and other European governments have legitimate concerns about illiberal moves that Orban and his ruling party have used to consolidate their power in recent years. However, that makes him neither »neofascist« nor a dictator. That’s a ridiculous way to describe the head of government of a democratic allied country.

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McCain even has a fair point that the person nominated to be ambassador to Hungary is a woefully unqualified bundler, but at the moment it is McCain who has done more to damage relations with Hungary than anything the unqualified nominee could have done while in Budapest.”

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kulalak
2015. november 10. 00:58
Decent attempt for "damage control". But this "Hungary’s increasing economic ties to Russia" always makes me smile. This would be bad if we were decreasing our Western ties at the same time, which we are not, not at all, on the contrary, we need both and we need both more. And our own, of course.
Charlie Chan
2015. augusztus 11. 15:13
Any argument based on lies and bs and culminating in a personal assult is counterproductive. Public insults do not help bilateral relations.
kulalak
2015. február 04. 04:52
Nothing happens here for weeks. Can we discuss this article? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/opinion/dont-trade-away-our-health.html
nagykutya
2015. január 03. 16:45
What can you expect from someone who fires Zuni rockets into his own aircraft carrier? Or, broadcasts anti-American propaganda from N. Vietnam ?
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