President Obama's communications skills can't trump the theocratic leadership of the Iran. It is odd to me that Obama thinks of himself as so skilled or so effective in his ability to transcend years of hate, distrust, and cowardice that he feels he can win over the leadership of Iran with speeches and overtures of goodwill...that his open hand of negotiation and even friendship will somehow turn the tide of the fanatical Muslim world. How absurd. Does Obama understand with whom he is attempting to deal?
Maybe Obama should recognize that while his hand is extended and open the hand of the Iranian government would direct their agents in Al Qaeda or Hamas to saw off the head of every western "infidel" if they could and post the video of their vile actions on the Internet. Can Obama be so naive or so obtuse? These people hate him (though they may find his weakness quite useful) just as much as they hate any American. They would kill all of us, Obama included, if they could. These are people we want to reach out to with an open hand? To what end? How does one have a rational conversation with someone who would like to cut your head off? Why would you waste your time? Is this all for show? Is this part of the inner Obama hippie, make love not war, parading itself as foreign policy?
Maybe Obama will start to figure this out sooner rather than later. Ahmadinejad has already hurled a pretty big insult at Obama, charging him with being no different than George W Bush as he batted the Obama Cairo speech back over the net...I am sure that comparison with "W" is considered the lowest of low blows by the Obama people, but get used to it, the Iranians are just getting started.
This naive and unrealistic view of the world and how it works is why the president of the United States needs to have had a job before he or she takes office. This is why community organizers do not rise to great levels of success in business. The lens of community organizing apparently fogged by the haze of "Kumbya" and hubris - which is a dangerous mix when leading the only super power in the world. The world is nothing like the southside of Chicago. Skills developed organizing unemployed steel workers don't translate particularly well in dealing with soon-to-be- nuclear countries who would like nothing more than to detonate a bomb in an American population center.
Feeling good about that open hand? I hope Obama's other hand is drawn back ready to punch Ahmadinejad in the face, but I suspect it is holding a bunch of freshly picked wild flowers or it might have some more money for his friends at the UAW.
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