Obama pwns Bush-Cheney on Iran

[NewJeffCT]

Obama pwns Bush-Cheney on Iran
First day of Talks Yields Significant Confidence-Building Steps

For 8 years, Bush-Cheney practiced what I call "belligerent Ostrichism" toward Iran. They refused to talk to Tehran. They wanted to ratchet up sanctions on it. Bush sent 2 aircraft carriers to the Gulf to menace Iran. Bush's spokesmen professed themselves afraid of Iran's unarmed little speedboats in the Gulf. Aside from issuing threats to attack and destroy Iran the way they did Iraq, Bush-Cheney had nothing else to say on the matter. During the 8 years, Iran went from being able to enrich to .2% to being able to enrich to 3.8%, and increased its stock of centrifuges significantly. Bush-Cheney gesticulated and grimaced and fainted away at the horror of it all, but they accomplished diddly-squat.

Barack Obama pwned Bush-Cheney in one day, and got more concessions from Iran in 7 1/2 hours than the former administration got in 8 years of saber-rattling.

Delegates of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany met with representatives of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for 7 and a half hours on Thursday for talks on Iran's nuclear research program.

Amazingly, there were signs of significant progress even on the first day, which most seasoned observers had not expected.

http://www.juancole.com/2009/10/obama-pwns-bush-cheney-on-iran-first.html

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. no, no, no... see without the 8 years

of threats there could be no meeting, don't ya get it?

For that matter, I think Uncle Ronnie's illegal deal for the hostages set the stage for this, don't you?

:sarcasm:

[NewJeffCT]

4. of course

And Reagan single-handedly defeated the Soviet Union - with one hand tied behind his back.

[tanyev]

5. All he had to do was say "Tear down this wall" and the commies collapsed

because they were shaking with terror. Super Zombie Reagan 2012!

[NewJeffCT]

6. Since the election, I've seen a resurgence of Reagan stuff

Saw a bumper sticker that said "Reagan '08, If only we could"

Saw a guy in his 20s with a pic of Reagan on his t-shirt and the label "Old School Conservative"

[tanyev]

7. I saw a Reagan-Bush 84 sticker on a car in a Starbucks parking lot

in St. Louis last summer. It was a fairly recent model car, certainly not an 80s car, and the bumper sticker looked brand new. Creepy.

[NewJeffCT]

8. I keep seeing a Toyota Prius locally

that has a bumper sticker that says "Obama, the next JC" on it, and it's a picture of Jimmy Carter. Mind boggling that it's on a prius.

[JohnWxy]

2. It's so great to have adult supervision in the White House!

Instead of foreign policy of a 12 year old child's punk mentality.

[laststeamtrain]

3. K & R w/ a link.

WPost’s Neocons Aim Their Editorial Guns At Iran: http://pubrecord.org/commentary/5665/wposts-neocons-their-editorial/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wposts-neocons-their-editorial