Pelosi Blasts Netanyahu Speech As ‘Insult To Intelligence Of U.S.’, Amanpour Calls It ‘Dark, Strange
Pelosi Blasts Netanyahu Speech As ‘Insult To Intelligence Of U.S.’, Amanpour Calls It ‘Dark, Strangelovian’
An amazing scene today, as a rightwing foreign leader told the Congress that our president has undertaken a “very bad” foreign policy and the Congress jumped up to cheer him. On the cables the analysts are falling over one another to praise Netanyahu’s speech. Jake Tapper said it was a “very very effective speech” with Elie Wiesel sitting in the gallery. Dianne Feinstein said it was a “very powerful speech” — and then sold out the White House negotiators, saying we should be getting 20 year promises from Iran, not ten. Jeffrey Goldberg said the biblical imagery will speak to Christian Americans.
But sanity is breaking through. Christiane Amanpour called the speech “dark, Strangelovian” in its hysteria about Iran as Nazi Germany. Ambassador Marc Ginsberg said Netanyahu played “guardian of the Jewish galaxy” and the only thing missing was comparing Obama to Neville Chamberlain and saying the talks are taking place in Munich, not Montreux. Ginsberg said the speech precipitates the Congress on a “steep slope” and “collision course” with Obama.
And here is part of Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi’s important statement.
“I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech – saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.”
The White House is widely reported to be furious over the speech. The first statement an unnamed official issued was that it was all “rhetoric” with “nothing new.”
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