Bad Start
We're off to a bad start under our new President. Some of that, but not all, is due to the bad ending of the previous Presidency. Consider:
AIG couldn't have doled out tax dollars to bonus babies had the administration been more reasonable than rushed in getting the "Stimulus Package" passed.
Accepting Treasury Secretary Geithner's explanation of his personal tax payments makes it easy for Americans to suspect we have another group in power who are "above the law." Credibility is now questionable in everything this Secretary does.
The President invited the Iranians to politely join us at the table, only to be snubbed and then admonished that Iranians won't join in talks until we confess we were wrong about them and the Middle East.
Russia, probably leveraging the kinder and gentler Obama administration, is now closer to putting long range bombers in the Gulf of Mexico without nary a public complaint from us. Did JFK just roll over in his grave?
President Obama sent a SECRET letter to the Russian president to say we would back away from our missile defense system in Europe if he would kindly talk to the Iranians for us and urge them to be nice. I wonder if he has forgotten that our support of that defense system was a prime factor in the collapse of the former Eastern Bloc?
In his rush to have a glorious "First 100 Days" you have to ask which of these outcomes are the unintended consequence of youthful inexperience and its corresponding lack of wisdom, or which are intentional?
Either way, we're off to a bad start.
Tom Paine
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Where do you get the idea that Iran snubbed the U.S.? They said they will accept something "honest" implying that the Bush admistration was crap. They know the games of the past. G.W. and before G.W. It's that attitude expressed by Madeline Albright during the Clinton administration. When another country expressed an opinion she says " WE ARE THE UNITED STATES". That was the answer to everything. That's a sucky attitude and not at all inviting. Like asking Pakistan for help on the war on terror "or they would be bombed back to the stone age". Wtf?
Where's the snub? As I recall, it was the Iranians who kidnapped and let die several Americans. We didn't attack Iran, (a great country of intellecutal partiers hijacked by ignorance) and the present government has the unearned audacity to say the following:
"But the way to do that is not by Iran forgetting the previous hostile and aggressive attitude of the United States. The American administration has to recognise its past mistakes and repair them as a way to put away the differences."
If you click on the link in the main essay, this is where this quote is pulled from, so the truth stands: Iran snubbed Obama and America.
Social graces require my restraint.
Maybe he is referring to the C.I.A. terrorists that have been in their country for decades. Do you imagine the U.S. minds it's own business same as Israel? Like "why don't they just leave us alone, all we want is peace?" hahaha! "everyone is out to get us" blah blah blah!
You look at the top of the ocean and describe the whole sea to me. No, there's much more than meets the eye. Besides, I hear the Republicans repremanding Obama for not being a typical American asshole, but the thing is, he knows a different stradagy is in order. Thank GOD I didn't vote Republican!
In a fanciful world only the USA has spies (CIA) in other countries, and the nations you support wouldn't dare do such a thing. That Ahdimiwhatever said he wouldn't talk to us until we admitted sins against Iran is more than a snub.
You stand on an island shoreline, see the ocean in front of you, but forget there is ocean behind you.
You miss the fact that US/Israel has all the resources and all the power, therefore when crimes are committed we can assume the U.S./Israel has topped any other country. It's not like Iran has tried to topple OUR government by paying thugs to do the job and killing innocent people along the way. The U.S./Israel has the long arm beyond Iran's capabilities. It's been in the U.S./Israeli imperial interest to run around the globe using C.I.A. operatives who are not even U.S. citizens to scuttle governments and create chaos in sovereign countries only to then turn around and give us the "stability" mantra that the U.S. supposedly has as it's agenda. Suuuuure.
No you can't assume that. That's an assertion hoped to be true, not proven. You have the impression that US and Israel is bad, united against an otherwise very good world. Self-deception!
Iran is not better off than it was 30 years ago. You are prone to All or None thinking. I encourage you to call pieces that are bad, bad, and those pieces that are good, good.
What was the problem with Iran 30 years ago? They toppled a U.S. puppet government, which they all do sooner or later as history proves...and then what?