Posted on 09/05/2012 9:35:45 PM PDT by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration’s new ambassador to Azerbaijan raised eyebrows this week with a gesture interpreted by some as paying homage to the country’s late dictator – a one-time KGB general installed by military coup who oversaw an autocratic regime before handing power to his son.
“The new U.S. envoy to Azerbaijan, Richard Morningstar, has honored memory of national leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev,” the Azeri news site News.Az reported.
“The newly appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States in Azerbaijan visited the monument to great leader in the park in front of the Heydar Aliyev’s Palace. Morningstar honored the memory of the national leader and laid flowers to the monument.”
A photograph released by the national news agency shows Morningstar standing in front of a statue of Aliyev with head bowed. Aliyev died in 2003
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Uh oh.
Dollars to donuts, I’m betting it’s a very sincere bow.
Here’s some research done by freeper Fedora which brings up Richard Morningstar:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1264816/posts
"A third early member of Kerry's foreign policy team was Richard Morningstar, a diplomat from the Clinton State Department. From 1995 to 1998 Morningstar had coordinated aid to the former Soviet Union, and in this capacity he had suppressed reports of US aid being diverted to fund the Russian military. Later Morningstar--a former Senior Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporations (OPIC)----had advised Clinton on Caspian energy policy, a subject related to OPIC development of a major oil pipeline then being built from Turkey through Georgia to Azerbaijan, the Baku--Tbilisi--Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline.10 " -- Fedora
He’s bowing his head, not his body.
One of John Kerry's benefactors was Hassan Nemazee, an Iranian born campaign donor shared with none other than Obama. Nemazee was convicted of defrauding some US banks and was fined and sentenced; Nemazee was for normalizing relations with Iran.
To get a better idea of what Obama and Kerry may have had in common besides Nemazee and morningstar maybe we should look at a quote of John Kerry from Fedora's link:
“I first want to say something about those sanctions on Iran. Only the United States put the sanctions on alone, and that's exactly what I'm talking about. In order for the sanctions to be effective, we should have been working with the British, French and Germans and other countries. And that's the difference between the president and me. . .With respect to Iran, the British, French, and Germans were the ones who initiated an effort without the United States, regrettably, to begin to try to move to curb the nuclear possibilities in Iran. I believe we could have done better. I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel, test them, see whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes."34---- John Kerry
“Here’s some research done by freeper Fedora which brings up Richard Morningstar”
I remember reading the Fedora thread. I have read that Kerry will be replacing Hillary Clinton in the next Obama term (if he wins).
I find that little revelation extremely disturbing but one more indication of what an Obama second term will be about.
I am constantly reminded of what Obama said to Dimitri Medvedev...the whispered message to Putin. I can’t understand why the electorate can’t see what Obama is really about.
I don’t think they understand Communism.
So the regimes official position is that despite the PICTURE OF HIM BOWING TO A STATUE, he didn’t bow to the statue. wow...just wow.
Didn’t bow?
Oh, I get it! “I say a little prayer for you...”.
Azerbaijan /Iran / Turkey /Russia pipelines ping
Do you think it is not related to the energy wars?
Sunday, July 01, 2012 10:22:46 AM · by a_Turk · 2 replies
Hurriyet Daily News ^ | 6/30/2012 | MURAT YETK
Russian energy giant Gazprom issued a brief statement on June 29 which actually touches on many political problems in the greater geography surrounding Turkey. It said that the company is ready to send more gas to Turkey if necessary, but from 2018 on Turkey could ask help from Azerbaijan as well. Reuters got it right when it called the statement a threat; a threat to both Turkey and Azerbaijan. The date the Russian company named, 2018, is the planned completion date for the TANAP (Trans-Anatolian) pipeline, which will carry Azerbaijani natural gas to Europe, a $7 billion project which was...
".....Azerbaijan is on the front lines of a shadow war between Israel and Iran. At stake are Iran’s nuclear weapons program and Israel’s clandestine efforts to stop it. A recent article published by McClatchy Newspapers refers to Azerbaijan—sandwiched between Iran and Russia on the Caspian Sea—as a “den of spies.” Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, and Iran—all of these countries and more run clandestine operations on Azerbaijani soil. “This is ground zero for intelligence work,” an Israeli intelligence official told the London Times earlier this year. “Our presence here is quiet, but substantial. We have increased our presence in the past year, and it gets us very close to Iran.” .... .....In late March, Foreign Policy magazine reported that Israel had struck a deal with Azerbaijan that would allow the Israelis to launch airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear installations from its territory. Whether or not this is true, the relationship between the Israeli and the Azerbaijani governments is close. ------------ What’s Going On in Azerbaijan? The Iran-al Qaeda alliance., The Weekly Standard ^ | May 7, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn Posted on 04/27/2012 10:52:18 PM PDT by neverdem
That is some fascinating information.
Thank you!
Much more telling is the position of his hands. Along with his head it sure looks like a bow to me.
The Russian Military Has an Action Plan Involving Georgia if Iran Is Attacked
Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor ^ | 4/5/2012 | Pavel Felgenhauer Posted on Friday, April 06, 2012 2:52:56 AM by bruinbirdman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2868832/posts
Exactly - his head is bowed and hands are in the “fig leaf” position that I have seen at dozens of wreath-layings. Normally that stance is used for paying respect to the war dead, so the State Department could have said he was just showing respect for the dead and was not meant as a political affirmation of Aliyev’s policies, but instead they went the ham-handed route and are trying to deny the undeniable. Sheer incompetence - same as why Morningstar allowed himself to be placed in that position in the first place - somebody told him to. We need adults at State again.
Anti-America, anti-military, snobbish, anti-Israel and pro-Arab, insulated, hard-leftist, superior, elitist attitudes.....(Hillary fit right into this atmosphere like a glove when she was appointed Secretary of State, btw).
An enclave of State Department retirees and spouses live around me here in Florida. I've been to their little dinners, barbecues, etc. Many of them from the commonplace sticks and hinterlands of the U. S., they sit around smoking European cigarettes, drinking German coffee, nibbling at Belgian after-dinner chocolates, talking with nostalgia about the good old days of (subsidized) living in plush embassies and posts overseas (always with local servants, of course) all the while extolling the cultural and political virtues of European countries over those of the U.S.
I quickly got out of that social milleu. It burned me up....they're still living very well on the big pensions being paid for by us as they verbally run down this country over their brandies (delicately, obliquely and diplomatically, of course, as they've been trained).
Leni
Looks like he’s taking a piss. The liberals should have spun it that way.
I hope to live to see the day that the US State Dept is completely disbanded.
Azerbaijan may at least be of benefit to us if its airbases get used by Israel to nail Iran's nuke sites.
The problem isn't that he's bowing to a dead guy's statue, it's that he may be doing what Kerry did in the 70s : backstab our allies.
Correct. They all love being in socialist/communist countries so they can live like princes, put down America and enjoy whores on the cheap.
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