Obama has this stunted view--a view most liberals share--that talk and negotiation will get other nations to like us. He sent some feel-good overtures to Iran and the Iranians have responded about how I'd expected:
US President Barack Obama's offer to talk to Iran shows that America's policy of "domination" has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.The Iranians come from a part of the world where men are hard and have been for centuries. People in the region respect one thing: strength. Negotiating is for weaklings or for those who are losing.
"This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed," Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.
"Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change," he added.
After nearly three decades of severed ties, Obama said shortly after taking office this month that he is willing to extend a diplomatic hand to Tehran if the Islamic republic is ready to "unclench its fist".
In response, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a fresh tirade against the United States, demanding an apology for its "crimes" against Iran and saying he expected "deep and fundamental" change from Obama.
Obama played right into that by his talk during the campaign of unconditional talks with Ahmadinejad and others. They look at him as a timid leader who doesn't have any heart and that's scary.
I expect an incident in the Straits of Hormuz in the next year in which the Iranian navy tries to get froggy with either a merchant ship headed toward the US or a US Navy vessel. The mullahs are going to want to test the backbone the unproven Obama.
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