Fortunately, Illinois Democrat Jan Schakowsky (you may recall that she skipped Netanyahu's anti-diplomacy speech to Congress) is circulating a letter to her colleagues in support of diplomacy.
The key question in the wake of the unprecedented controversy around the Netanyahu anti-diplomacy speech to Congress and the Republicans' open letter to Iran is: which Senate Democrats will reward the Republicans who did these things by helping them try to blow up diplomacy?
I say "apparently" because 1) I want to give Blumenauer the benefit of the doubt -- he has been a strong advocate of diplomacy in general (one of the first Members of Congress to pledge to skip Netanyahu's anti-diplomacy speech to Congress, for example) and 2) the public reporting on this issue -- which barely exists -- is not very good so far, as you will see below.
It suggests that Pakistani anger with the US is so intense that it will not even indulge in the usual polite formalities of public diplomacy and speech making about the need for regional peace.
But there is more to diplomacy than speeches.
Earlier this week, Khamenei, talked about the virtues of "heroic leniency" in diplomacy in a speech to the revolutionary guard that was widely seen as providing Rouhani the political space to make a nuclear deal.
Mrs. Clinton outlined her vision of diplomacy in a speech on Thursday afternoon at the Council on Foreign Relations here, repeating her themes that economic development and the use of social media were important complements to military force and the other more traditional levers of power.
The article Ross posted suggests that President Obama's YouTube Diplomacy around his speech in Cairo has not had the long-term consequences that were implied by the initial success of the video's mass, multilingual distribution.
Yet Trump, in his speech, mentioned diplomacy only in passing.
He is also a secular nationalist who made his campaign speech about diplomacy in Ariel, a large West Bank settlement.
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