Obama Helped Ahmadinejad

BUOYED by their modest electoral success last month, critics of
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's provocative foreign policy were
preparing to launch a series of attacks on him in the Islamic Majlis,
Iran's ersatz parliament. But then Ahmadinejad got an unexpected boost
from Barack Obama.

Ali Larijani, Iran's former nuclear negotiator and now a Majlis member,
was arguing that the Islamic Republic would pay a heavy price for
Ahmadinejad's rejection of three UN Security Council resolutions on
nukes. Then the likely Democratic presidential nominee stepped in.

Obama announced that, if elected, he wouldn't
ask Iran to comply with UN resolutions as a precondition for direct
talks with Ahmadinejad: "Preconditions, as it applies to a country like
Iran, for example, was a term of art. Because this administration has
been very clear that it will not have direct negotiations with Iran
until Iran has met preconditions that are essentially what Iran views,
and many other observers would view, as the subject of the
negotiations; for example, their nuclear program."

Tell me again how Obama's views aren't naive? How his ideas will work? I honestly hope he can achieve such goals if he's elected President, but I guess I'm a bit jaded when I hear news like this. When a little cocksucker like Ahmadinejad gets into his head that he has real power, he starts in with the little man syndrome and everyone gets a bit nervous.

What I'd REALLY like to know is, why does Obama seem to think that it's ok to ignore UN resolutions when he was touting them just a few short years before? A tad hypocritical don't you think?


Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com