Honestly, ya can’t make this stuff up. No one would believe it. Really, fact is better than fiction anymore.
The incoming Obama administration plans to create a new position to coordinate outreach to Iran and is considering a number of senior career diplomats, State Department officials and Iran specialists say. President-elect Barack Obama promised during his campaign to seek dialogue with Iran without preconditions in an effort to persuade Tehran to suspend its uranium enrichment program, but also has pledged to toughen sanctions. A State Department official said the idea of naming a senior Iranian outreach coordinator was broached in the first transition meetings with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Obama’s choice for secretary of state, and her transition team earlier this month. “The idea is that the position should build on the existing diplomatic framework,” the official said. He asked not to be named because a nominee has not been announced.
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Meanwhile…Senator Obama is getting 2 (sometimes 3) Presidential Daily Briefings on the highest level of classified intelligence reporting. So, sometime after he gave the go-ahead to start setting up to “talk” w Iran (as if it hasn’t already been tried) he went to a PDB briefing-maybe before bedtime-and was told:
Coalition special operations forces captured a suspected Iranian “agent” and an associate during an early morning raids north of Baghdad, Multinational Forces Iraq reported. The Iranian is described as a “commander of Iranian special operations in Iraq who is also believed to be involved in facilitating training of Iraqi militants at Islamic Republican Guard Corps-Qods Force training camps.” The raids took place in the town of Qastin in Diyala province. The Iranian agent then led US forces to his associate.
US and Iraqi forces have captured several high-level Qods Force officers inside Iraq since late 2006. Among those captured are Mahmud Farhadi, one of the three Iranian regional commanders in the Ramazan Corps; Ali Mussa Daqduq, a senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative; Qais Qazali, the leader of the Qazali Network; and Azhar al Dulaimi, one of Qazali’s senior tactical commanders. The US has imposed sanctions on Major General Ahmad Foruzandeh, the former Qods Force commander, and Abdul Reza Shahlai, a deputy commander in Iran’s Qods Force, for backing Shia terror groups inside Iraq.
Iraqi and US forces have killed one Qods Force operative and captured 11 since mid-October.
This must’ve been like a bucket of ice water. I’d love to have been a fly on the wall for that one.
Once again, reality and pipedreams collide over the Obama foreign policy promises of CHANGE.
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That’s funny… Obama wanting to appoint an outreach envoy to Iran? Sounds to me like that’s the State Department’s territory. And I distinctly remember that one of Hillary’s demands was that all appointees to that department are *her* decision.
Is the Hillary/Obama honeymoon over already? Or is the line in the sand moving?
Not only that, but remember during the primaries when Hillary mocked Obama and said it’s basically foolish to think that you can just talk to Iran and everything will be better. Love the irony that now she reports to him, and she HAS TO try and talk to Iran. Oh what a bitter pill that’s gotta be for the Clintons. Seriously, what’s the best case scenario: she goes to Iran and signs a non-aggression treaty and reopens the US embassy that still has DEATH TO AMERICA painted all over it? Total Chamberlin moment.
Bitter pill? None of this was unexpected by Hillary, Scott. This is not a woman caught by surprise.
Thus the reason I pondered on the Enigma of a State Secy Clinton last month. There’s something Obama’s offered her in exchange for her doing his bidding… all of which is against her better judgment. Not to mention yielding her Senate seat and potential to run for elected office again (being is such serious debt).
I’ll say it again, tyrants do not respect or listen to those unwilling to fight. The Iranians will talk ONLY to gain political advantage and/or buy time before they attack.
When tyrants see their opponents are gutless, they are encouraged to continue with their actions or even escalate them. Hitler is a prime example of this. I won’t take much pleasure in telling the obamatons that we told them so since life will likely have been lost as a result…not that they will care.
Maybe Obama picked Hillary to give him deniability when his administration breaks its promises.
and/or fails, makes mistakes, etc
Obama is an idiot. Nothing else to say about this guy.
An “Outreach Coordinator”? LOL, still approaching the world at large in community
activistorganizer terms I see. The term alone says “placate” rather than “administrate”. What’s this individual chosen’s expected duties?; To go over, hold their collective hands like some sympathetic social worker, and provide upset Iranians a shoulder to sob on? Oh I’m sure they’ll respect that! ROTFL.