Hot Dogs with the Iranians
BY Herschel Smith
15 years, 7 months ago
From the New York Times:
Having sent the Iranian people a video greeting on their New Year, President Obama is now inviting them to help celebrate a quintessentially American holiday, the Fourth of July.
Last Friday, the State Department sent a cable to its embassies and consulates around the world notifying them that “they may invite representatives from the government of Iran” to their Independence Day celebrations — annual receptions that typically feature hot dogs, red-white-and-blue bunting and some perfunctory remarks about the founding fathers.
Administration officials characterized the move as another in a series of American overtures to Iran. The United States has not had relations with Iran since the American Embassy in Tehran was seized by protesters in 1979; the country’s diplomats have not been formally invited to American events since then.
“It is another way of saying we are not putting barriers in the way of communicating,” said one administration official. “It is another way of signaling that there is an opportunity that should not be wasted.”
A second official said the ban no longer made sense, at a time when the United States was actively engaging with Iranian officials elsewhere. In March, the administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard C. Holbrooke, chatted with Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Mohammad Mehdi Akhondzadeh, at a conference in The Hague.
Of course, the U.S. has “chatted” with the Iranians for twenty fives years. Now it has devolved into grovelling to them over hot dogs and picnics. Truth is stranger than fiction. If I was tasked with the duty to design and formulate a plan to make Obama look weak and effeminate before the world, I couldn’t have done any better than he is doing himself.
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On June 3, 2009 at 8:00 am, TSAlfabet said:
As the classic rock song goes, “You ain’t seen nothing yet…”
Obama is scheduled to travel to Germany where he will, reportedly (www.powerlineblog.com) visit not only Buchenwald, the notorious concentration camp, but also Dresden, the city fire-bombed by the Allies in WWII.
If Obama was content to merely humiliate himself with self-flagellation or weepy sentimentality that would be bad enough. But Obama chooses to humiliate America and its veterans with his misplaced apologies and, it would seem, conflation of Buchenwald to Dresden. The grovelling to the Iranians is all part of the same cloth.
What is with the American electorate? 54% of us would not go to a dentist who had never had any experience or training in pulling teeth, but we elect a complete executive neophyte for 4 years– at an unbelievably dangerous time in history– who literally has the power of life and death in his hands.
On June 3, 2009 at 10:25 am, Warbucks said:
Which raises perhaps, yet another worrisome war-time metaphor of man’s fear of feminine rage: “Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d.”
William Congreve, in The mourning bride, 1697
Iranian clerics should do well to ponder such heritage from which our hospitality grows.