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Should be more conciliatory and prop up the alliance. you have the mid-level bureaucrats who are really the place where the actual diplomacy work gets done and they just don't know who to listen to. they don't know if the information they are getting is correct and promises will be followed through on. that's a significant problem in terms of getting the nitty-gritty work of diplomacy done. >> our nation turns their lonely eyes to you. you get the task of explaining finally what the president is talking about with the balance of payments to nato. as he tells it, you would think we are making a...

Pass. >> sure. and let's not kid ourselves, they're not going to pass this plan. they're going to move off of it. this is a starting point of the negotiations. go back to august when it was just the president and house speaker boehner. you got the sense that obama desperately wanted the house speaker to take that grand bargain which included raising eligibility age of medicare, which included reforming payment structure of social security in part because we needed a vehicle to get the debt ceiling raised. nowadays when you're looking at the supercommittee and its legislations there's a differe...