The Lefty was trying to make this out to be some huge thing, to which I replied: 1) We are talking to Iran ALL the time, not just via proxy, but also through interest sections and other means, and 2) Kissinger's position on this HAS NOT CHANGED. The thing these idiots do not understand -- and that this unspeakably unqualified tyro named Barack Obama does not understand -- is that to my knowledge, not only does Kissinger not support direct talks at the Presidential level without preconditions, but no other living Secretary of State does either.
On this point alone he betrays how vanishingly small his diplomatic experience is.
Yeah, tonight as always Obama babbles all over the distinctions between direct “Summit” diplomacy between heads of state, lesser but senior level negotiations such as between a Secretary or Deputy Secretary of State and their counterpart Foreign Minister or Depty. Foreign Minister, and then all the myriad other forms of diplomatic contact such as at more junior levels, through 3rd party intermediaries, utilizing willing allies, int’l organizations (which do occasionally have a role to play), etc. etc.
Obama is clueless. He still talks as though no Head-of-State negotiations means nothing at all can be addressed between two nations. He has a naive media-centered view of the world in which the only diplomacy is that conducted by heads of state.
His original idiotic comment (so applauded by the rabid Moonbats) in July 2007 expressed an unqualified pledge to meet as POTUS with the “leaders” of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, etc. in his first year in office.
He thinks that if the POTUS is not holding glorified summit meetings then nothing is happening at all. He would instant hand diplomatic victories and unearned int’l prestige to the dictators of the world’s worst regimes, without even knowing whether he would get anything in return except more abuse for the USA.