The Occasional Observer

So the Dems haven't even settled on a nominee yet, and already they've managed to send the international community into an uproar. With all of their talk of using the threat of an opt-out as a "hammer" to renegotiate NAFTA with more favorable terms (presumably for us, which means, well, you get the idea), the Canadians are now giving us the "make my day" argument. Try to renegotiate, they say, and they'll pull out first and start selling their oil to China instead of to us.

Maybe it's only me, but isn't their something a bit contradictory going on here? These are the same Dems who pillory Bush for his "unilateral" approach to international relations, right?

Hmmm. Would that be unilateral like, say, unilaterally threatening to withdraw from a treaty that was negotiated in good faith between the US and one (or maybe two) of our closest allies, and is supposed to reflect a commitment on the part of the particiapting nations, in a transparent effort to drum up a few 11th hour votes in Ohio? Or maybe they mean the other kind of unilateral.