There's A Psychological Reason Why The US Is Yielding To Iran

BI - The Atlantic ^ | 9-28-2014 | David Frum

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DAVID FRUM, The Atlantic
September 28, 2014

If there has been one consistent theme to the Obama administration’s foreign policy, it has been the yearning for some kind of deal with the ruling Iranian regime.

President Obama reportedly sent a sequence of messages to Iran’s supreme ruler, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the early months of 2009. The U.S. president held his tongue during the first 10 days of violently repressed protests against the falsified Iranian presidential election of 2009. Obama resisted the tough Kirk-Menendez sanctions against Iran’s central bank until the Senate approved them on a vote of 100-0. When nuclear negotiations with the rulers of Iran failed to yield results by the declared deadline, the administration extended the deadline — and the sanctions relief Iran receives for as long as negotiations continue.

Little has come of all these attempts, for the uncomplicated reason that the rulers of Iran are not much interested in them. Or, to put it a little more complexly, the rulers of Iran value other priorities more highly than they value any benefit that might come from improving relations with the United States.

The rulers of Iran value other priorities more highly than they value any benefit that might come from improving relations with the United States.

There’s a line of argument among certain foreign-policy types that imagines Iran as an “Open Sesame” kind of problem: Just intone the right verbal formula, and the obstructions will all roll away. Its proponents claim that the rulers of Iran and the United States might have reached a rapprochement after 9/11 if only the Bush administration had not labeled the ruling Iranian regime as part of the “axis of evil”

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[familyop]

"It is so strange seeing David Frum be hardline."

The political classes of the nations of the world are slowly slithering together to attack his nation: Israel.

[SoConPubbie]

I wish he could be this way more consistently.

First he would have to give up being a Homo.

[familyop]

"There's A Psychological Reason Why The US Is Yielding To Iran"

Influential folks of the whole world are getting friendly with evil nations for a psychological reason that they don't understand.

[RedHeeler]

Same fish, same fry.

[Rudder]

Frum, like every other amateur, falsely assumes he’s a junior psychologist.

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Yes.

[MarMema]

And Amir Hekmati. hello? Does anyone in office care about this marine?

[piasa]

Google Obama donor Hassan Nemazee.