Posted on 12/30/2014 9:26:37 AM PST by kiryandil
Steve Inskeep: Let me ask a few questions, Mr. President, about America's place in the world and how you see it and how you'd like to move it if you can in the last couple of years that you have.
We're speaking at a moment after you've announced that you're restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba. You want to reopen an embassy there. Is there any scenario under which you can envision, in your final two years, opening a U.S. embassy in Tehran?
President Hur Hur Durp!: I never say never, but I think these things have to go in steps. You know, Cuba is a circumstance in which for 50 years, we have done the same thing over and over again and there hadn't been any change. And the question was, should we try something different with a relatively tiny country that doesn't pose any significant threat to us or our allies?
Tehran is a large, sophisticated country that has a track record of state-sponsored terrorism, that we know was attempting to develop a nuclear weapon or at least the component parts that would be required to develop a nuclear weapon that has engaged in disruptions to our allies, whose rhetoric is not only explicitly anti-American but also has been incendiary when it comes to its attitude towards the state of Israel.
So, there's a lot of history there that's different from the history between us and Cuba. And the strategic importance of Tehran is or Iran is different from what we face with Cuba.
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That's gonna leave a mark a Navy corpseman couldn't fix, well, it would if it was George W. Bush or Sarah Palin...
Obama’s goal for the USA is strategic and economic parity with Kenya.
Send it to me on a roll of TP. I’ll put it to good use.
Further why would anyone care what he thinks? We all know by now that he is a hard line statist dedicated to eradicting individual freedom and substituting the power of the state
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