After the Senate Leadership Fund questioned her foreign policy judgement in an ad featuring ailing Syrian children, Heitkamp took to Twitter: "Using poisoned, dead Syrian children in a political attack ad is disgusting, shameful and downright wrong," she wrote.
"I was trained as a reptile lurking in the gutter whose sole job was to 'get the bloody story.' " The laws that encourage such gutter lurking have been criticized in judgments by the European Court of Human Rights and shunned by the United States Congress, which unanimously enacted the Speech Act, rendering foreign libel judgements virtually unenforceable in the States.
Foreign policy is the fine judgement between those things.
Also easy to stand on the sidelines a few days later and pass judgement in what former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, calls the "languid luxury of hindsight".
Many foreign correspondents and "India hands" lost their intellectual confidence and judgement before such diligently manufactured consensus.
But Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, has said he is optimistic that the judgement will finally allow the two countries to put the issue behind them.
This concept, while foreign to me, is interesting, as it used to justify so much judgement and separation in our society.
Germany´s Foreign Minister, Mr. Guido Westerwelle, has made the following statement: 'The Cologne judgements has triggered confusion internationally.
Mr Biden, credible on foreign policy in a way that Mr Obama frankly is not, opens a can on John McCain's judgement.
But Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Hangsheng issued a statement saying: "We demand the Malaysian side state the detailed evidence that leads them to this judgement, as well as supply all the relevant information and evidence about the satellite data analysis.
