{OT} slick deal

May 18, 2010 2 Replies
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I said many times before the Iranians are far more adept at the game of political manuevering than anything the current administration or career State Department of the United States has. Once again they have pulled a fast one and have provided a lesson in the fine art of back room dealings. Obama and his Chicago-style thugs have no chance against the wily mullahs.


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What a fiasco. That's the first word that comes to mind watching Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raise his arms yesterday with the leaders of Turkey and Brazil to celebrate a new atomic pact that instantly made irrelevant 16 months of President Obama's "diplomacy." The deal is a political coup for Tehran and possibly delivers the coup de grace to the West's half-hearted efforts to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.



Full credit for this debacle goes to the Obama Administration and its hapless diplomatic strategy. Last October, nine months into its engagement with Tehran, the White House concocted a plan to transfer some of Iran's uranium stock abroad for enrichment. If the West couldn't stop Iran's program, the thinking was that maybe this scheme would delay it. The Iranians played coy, then refused to accept the offer.


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Current administration? Do you think the previous administration achieved anything notable in terms of making Iran behave better? If you say yes, give details.

Also, you used the phrase "career State Department". Please explain exactly why you tagged the word "career" onto "State Department".

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The previous Iraqi administration of Saddam Hussein was doing a swell job of keeping Iran, radical Islam, and terrorists in line, but our previous administration didn't appreciate the efforts. So now we have Iraq infiltrated with Iranian money and politics and tilted far more to the Islamic fundamentalist right than it's been in a century. Heck of a job, Dubya!

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