Posted on 06/29/2009 10:32:37 AM PDT by AJKauf
Barack Obama’s plan to “engage” Iran was, ever since he raised the subject in the presidential campaign, always a foggy and ill-defined notion.
In the first presidential debate John McCain asked, “So let me get this right. We sit down with Ahmadinejad, and he says, ‘We’re going to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth,’ and we say, ‘No, you’re not’? Oh, please.”
It was never clear what could be achieved by engagement or what magic words Obama might utter that had not be transmitted to the mullahs by our European allies or through other channels for years now.
But in the fog of tear gas and the spray of fire hoses used on peaceful protestors, the Iranian regime has revealed its true nature, for any who were confused. Now even the president must concede: “There is no doubt that any direct dialogue or diplomacy with Iran is going to be affected by the events of the last several weeks.”...
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What’s next? More engagement!
Some new outrage..
This is premature.
We haven’t had the July 4th “Wieners for Wahhabis” parties yet.
More failures from the amateurs.
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