Posted on 12/07/2010 7:00:09 AM PST by nuconvert
Policies of engagement with hostile powers are always risky, and frequently lead to embarrassment, as Hillary Clinton discovered last weekend in Bahrain. Foreign Policy.com has a revealing article today detailing the Secretary of States futile attempts to greet Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki at the 2010 IISS Manama Security Dialogue, where she was the featured speaker. According to Foreign Policys report:
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to speak with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki twice on Friday, pursuing him both inside and outside the gala dinner here at the Ritz Carlton in Manama. But Mottaki deliberately avoided contact with her both times
Everybody at the opening dinner for the 2010 IISS Manama Security Dialogue, where Clinton gave the speech, was watching to see if she and Mottaki would trade words. After all, they were seated only five seats apart. Clinton went out on a limb twice to try to make it happen, but the end result was only an unintelligible mutter from the Iranian leader in the general direction of the secretary.
The next attempt by Clinton came outside the conference space, in the driveway while both leaders were waiting for their motorcades to pull up. Again, Clinton called out to Mottaki with a greeting and again, Mottaki refused to respond.
The incident was clearly humiliating for the Secretary of State,
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
But why oh why would your new boss be afraid of a watermelon?
How do you know W had anything to do with STUXNET? It happened in late 2010. He was long gone by that point. Might have been Obama. Obama certainly had to give a final approval even if it started under W. Although, I’ve also heard that Israel was more behind it than we were. Who knows? It does appear to be more in their baliwick. They do that kind of thing. We don’t. Or at least we haven’t traditionally.
STUXNET took at least a couple of years to conceptualize, design, write. and then test ... Bush most certainly was the “Presidential Architect” of this brilliant software weapon ...
WRONG POLICY!
She should have worn a dress with extreme decolletage and gone over and shaken her TaTas at him.
That would be my way of dealing with those seventh century throwbacks.
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