Obama Promises New Iran Approach
Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:06 PM
WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said on Sunday he will take a new approach toward Iran that will emphasize respect for the Iranian people and spell out what the United States expects of its leaders.
“Iran is going to be one of our biggest challenges,” Obama said in an interview with ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
[Obama's "new" approach gives me no confidence at all.]
Obama said he was concerned about the Islamic republic’s support of the Lebanese Shi’ite movement Hezbollah and about Iran’s nuclear enrichment, which he said could trigger a Middle East arms race.
In a shift from President George W. Bush’s policies, Obama has said he would seek much broader engagement with Iran.
“We are going to have to take a new approach. And I’ve outlined my belief that engagement is the place to start,” he said.
Obama, who takes office as president on Jan. 20, said that approach would include “sending a signal that we respect the aspirations of the Iranian people, but that we also have certain expectations in terms of how an international actor behaves.
“We are in preparations for that. We anticipate that we’re going to have to move swiftly in that area,” Obama said.
Washington accuses Tehran of seeking a nuclear weapon but Tehran insists its nuclear program is for the peaceful purpose of generating electricity.
Obama has said he was prepared to offer Iran economic incentives to stop its nuclear program but he also has said tougher sanctions could be imposed if it refused.
Its the same approach tried with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. The name it goes under is “appeasement.” Any one who thinks Iran will abandon its genocidal aim vis a vis the Jewish State because the U.S is going to sweet talk to it is deluding themselves. Nothing in Obama’s entire career has prepared him for the fact that America and certain countries will never get along because their values are in truth irreconcilable. There is no way we can get Iran to like us unless America is prepared to sacrifice her values, her security and her allies to get Iran to drop her hostility toward America. Obama’s diplomatic overtures to Iran will crash on the shoals of the reality of the Islamist regime and its true nature.
Comment by NormanF — January 11, 2009 @ 11:24 pm
What happened to all that junk about “there is only one President” that the idiot messiah liked to use as an explanation for why he wasn’t commenting on the Gaza operation? Easy come, easy go, I guess.
And it’s interesting how he thinks that the real threat from Iran’s enrichment activities is possibly sparking an arms race, rather than the actual threat that Iran poses. It sounds just like his moronic idea that all “terrorism” starts and stops with Al Quaeda (something he stressed over and over during the campaign). Unreal. But … that’s how they teach them to think in Indonesia.
Comment by progressoverpeace — January 12, 2009 @ 4:09 am