Wednesday, January 28, 2009

All Lunacy All The Time

Determined to distinguish itself from its predecessor, the Obama administration reportedly is working on a conciliatory letter to Iran:


Officials of Barack Obama's administration have drafted a letter to Iran from the president aimed at unfreezing US-Iranian relations and opening the way for face-to-face talks, the Guardian has learned. ...

No doubt Ahmadinejad's stock is rising in Tehran. The Guardian adds:


Ahmadinejad said yesterday that he was waiting patiently to see what the Obama administration would come up with. "We will listen to the statements closely, we will carefully study their actions, and, if there are real changes, we will welcome it," he said.


Before the election, many worried that Obama is dangerously naive when it comes to foreign policy, partly because he has below-average knowledge of American and world history. Nothing that has happened since his inauguration has allayed those concerns.