Barack Obama must follow through on his promises of direct talks with Tehran and engage the Middle East region as a whole if he is to halt a looming crisis.
So Barry sends Hillary! in to hold those talks as her first assignment.Brilliant.
Posted on 12/02/2008 2:50:38 PM PST by COUNTrecount
Iran poses the greatest foreign policy challenge to the new president with Tehran on course to produce a nuclear bomb in the first year of an Obama administration, an unprecedented coalition of top think tanks warned yesterday.
Barack Obama must follow through on his promises of direct talks with Tehran and engage the Middle East region as a whole if he is to halt a looming crisis that could be revisited on the United States, the experts warned.
“Diplomacy is not guaranteed to work: it is not,” Richard Hass, one of the authors said. “But the other options – military action or living with an Iranian weapon are sufficiently unattractive for it to warrant serious commitment.”
The warnings came in a report called “Restoring the Balance,” a Middle East strategy for the incoming president drafted by the Council for Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution. Gary Samore, one of the authors, said the level of alarm over the “hornet’s nest” facing the new president in the Middle East, and the need for the swift adoption of previously untested approach, had inspired the unprecedented decision to write policy for him. “New administrations can choose new policies but they can’t choose next contexts,” Mr. Samore said. “This is what they inherit.”
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Barack Obama must follow through on his promises of direct talks with Tehran and engage the Middle East region as a whole if he is to halt a looming crisis.
So Barry sends Hillary! in to hold those talks as her first assignment.Brilliant.
Dick Morris was right. The Presidency wasn’t worth winning this election cycle.
Rise and shine President-elect, WELCOME TO REALITY!
Good luck, Barry, if there is a war and you need bodies, call your pals in Hollywood like P-diddy and Jessica Alba, I am sitting the next war out.
Let’s send Obama, Biden, and Hillary all together to Tehran, RIGHT NOW.
President Bush can announce that it is of the utmost national importance that the 3 jokers get to Tehran this week and that they NOT RETURN without a firm, verifiable commitment from the Mullahs to give up their nuke programs.
Let the Mullahs keep the 3 Musketeers..... Hillary might look a lot better in a burkha anyway.
Brilliant indeed. Barry will send his big sis Hillary! in AFTER he talks with Soros and the likes of Tom Daschle. We’re in deep u-no-what.
Wow! Now there's a news flash. Sheesh...
They are going to have so much fun with him...
***The report laid blame for much of the crisis squarely with the Bush administration, whose war in Iraq fuelled Iran’s ascendancy as a regional power.***
Yep, SURE! If Bush hadn’t taken out Saddam who was sending materials for nukes to Iran, Iran would have had everything it needed to bomb us years ago.
I shudder to imagine what a mess this idiot is going to make of things in the middle east. Will he throw Israel under the bus? Or, in order to overcompensate for his obvious weakness, will he make heavy handed Kennedy-style mistakes and create crisis after crisis?
he’s already had his ‘people’ talking to Iran about the Iran/India/Pakistan gas pipeline.
He’s going to ‘engage’ Iran with a pipeline.
BO is in so over his head. He and his almighty Dems are nothing but Neville Chamberlain. These have no back bone outside of saving their own political hide. Besides, they still have Bush to blame for things! Maybe we can just hug it out?
God I hope I am wrong about these people, but I really don’t think I am.
While we underestimate ‘the one’ - he knows exactly how he wants to “change the world.” And the world is never going to be the same.
“Barry will send his big sis Hillary! in”
And you know those moolahs ain’ta gonna like talkin’ to a female! Think they’d lie to her?
Barry, Ahmadinejad has already prewarned you that he ain’t going to talk to you without preconditions. Checkmate!
From the NYT:
"Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Ron Paul said Iran posed no real threat. That they were rational and wouldn’t nuke anything. So what’s the problem?
Iran is a tiny country. Ron Paul and Obama know the truth!
lol
“Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Wow! Did he really say that? It ‘s time to decide if you’re going to fight or convert.
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