Obama man stresses importance of dialogue with Iran

Britain News Network ^ | 7/2/08 | staff

[pissant]

One of Barack Obama's senior foreign policy advisers has said the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran is the biggest threat facing the world.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Anthony Lake, a former US national security adviser now working with Obama, said: "I believe that the most dangerous crisis we are going to face in the next three to 10 years is if the Iranians get on the edge of developing a nuclear weapon."

Obama and his advisers, such as Lake, have stressed the Democratic candidate's readiness to sit down with Iranian leaders without conditions.

In the interview, Lake depicted Obama as a realist rather than an anti-war politician, by saying: "Do you believe that simply sanctioning them can drive them into concessions before you talk, or do you believe that you need to have the sanctions there as a stick at the heart of negotiations."

Lake also said the US Democratic presidential candidate would push Europe to agree on tougher sanctions against Tehran.

He also stressed that Obama, even after withdrawing troops from Iraq over 16 months as he has promised, would maintain "a residual presence for clearly defined missions."

[pissant]

Maybe Mahmoud and Barry can develop a relationship like Larry and Barry.

[Cindy]

A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Oddly enough, he was quite the darling of the anti-War wingnuts during the primaries.

Oh well, under the bus with the rest.

[Cindy]

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[traumer]

I wonder what the Israelis think about THAT....

[Brilliant]

Obama: “So Mahmoud... Tell me why you want to wipe Israel off the map. Maybe we can discover some common ground.”

[billmor]

Anthony Lake...former protege of Henry Kissinger and Nixon, former Director of Policy Planning under Jimmah Cahrter, was National Security Advisor to Bill Clinkstone, was Prof at Mount Holyoke College and taught on the Vietnam War, Third World Revolutions, and American Foreign Policy..Once stated that he was not sure if Alger Hiss was guilty..which may have cost him a nomination as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency..

Yep, that’s just the type of loser Obama would pick as a foreign affairs consultant..”Revolutions”..ahh...makes a dimRATS heart beat faster...

[billmor]

oops...almost forgot to give the source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lake

[Miss Didi]

Ah, dialogue with Iran...I just heard Medea Code Pink say the same thing on The Factor. Must be this week’s talking point.

[Jeff Head]

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[JimSEA]

Obama and his advisers, such as Lake, have stressed the Democratic candidate's readiness to sit down with Iranian leaders without conditions.

The Iranians are experts at playing "friends" and enemies off against each other while baiting the Russians and Chinese with the idea of oil(before their production capacity reaches zero). The will get as many goodies as they can from Lake and his boss, Obama. Then, having perfected their nuclear weapons, they will have a surrogate eliminate most of the Israelis. Israel doesn't have the nonnuclear capacity to eliminate the threat.

[TigersEye]

...would maintain "a residual presence for clearly defined missions."

Oh I see. So Obama wouldn't REALLY get us out of Iraq. He would draw down the forces according to what commanders would tell him is necessary and of course if they told him they needed more to insure security Obama would put some back in. It sounds an awful lot like...it's so familiar to me...the Bush policy?

Captain Empty Suit strikes again!

[piasa]

...In November 1970, President Nixon asked the U.S. Congress to provide the Cambodian government of Lon Nol with $155 million in aid, of which $85 million would be earmarked for military assistance to help prevent the Khmer Rouge from taking power. American leftists, however, were adamantly against this proposal. One opponent of the policy was Anthony Lake, who in 1969 had become an aide to then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, but who – because he opposed Nixon’s bombing raids (designed to support Lon Nol against Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge) in Cambodia – soon parted political company with Kissinger and the President. By 1972 [Anthony] Lake was an activist in the McGovern presidential campaign, whose platform was founded upon the axiom that the military conflicts of Southeast Asia were rooted in the "arrogance of American power" rather than in Communist aggression.[10]... --------"Left-Wing Monster: Pol Pot ," by John Perazzo, Front Page Magazine ^ | August 8, 2005 |