Obama’s National Security Adviser James Jones has said that President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) is willing to “sit across a table” from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if he wants to talk about those nasty bombs they’re making.
The retired general also indicated that the return of three American hikers held in Iran for the past year would be an “important gesture”.
This statement by the administration is in response to a proposal last week by Ahmadinejad for a televised debate, live from the U.N., between Obama and the Iranian President:
Toward the end of summer we will hopefully be there for the (UN) General Assembly and I will be ready for one-on-one talks with Mr Obama, in front of the media of course.We are ready to sit down with Mr Obama face-to-face and put the global issues on the table, man-to-man, freely, and in front of the media and see whose solutions are better. We think this is a better approach.
When asked whether Scooter may sit down with “A-Jad”, Gen Jones said:
Ultimately if we find a convergence of paths all things are possible.
One thing they might do is return our three hikers. That would be an important gesture. It could lead to better relations.
However, the President’s national security adviser warned there would be “no point in a theatrical meeting.”
With those two, would there be any other kind?
Gen Jones refused to speculate on whether military action might be considered against Iran if it fails to comply with international demands.
Meanwhile, A-Jad has trouble back on the home front. Iranian businessmen both inside and outside the country say the economy is going in the tank (sounds familiar), while his many enemies from within the ranks of his own conservative faction in the leadership are very critical of his domestic policies.
Recently, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of our joint chiefs of staffs, was as comforting as Obama on the administration’s Iran policy, saying that he had prepared an attack plan focusing on Iran’s nuclear plants while at the same time accepting he was unwilling to use it.
Both sides are open about the brinkmanship threats of force involved, with the wider Middle East fearing it will be sucked into open conflict. Gen Hossein Moghadam, former deputy chief of Iran’s Revolution Guard said:
If the US decides to take a pre-emptive action and attack Iran, Iran will have no choice but to strike the American bases in the region.
The heavy costs of such a war will not be just on the Islamic Republic of Iran. America and other countries should accept that this would be the start of an extensive war in the region.
We are ready to sit down with Mr Obama face-to-face and put the global issues on the table, man-to-man, freely, and in front of the media and see whose solutions are better.
Ahmadinejad wanted to debate last September, but the administration ignored him. A-Jad has said Mr Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, had declined similar invitations because he was “scared”.
Ahmadinejad has on various occasions blamed the United States for “global disorders”, particularly the global financial crisis.
A-Jad ragged on Scooter for missing what he said were “historic opportunities” to repair relations with Iran, with whom the United States has had no direct diplomatic ties for more than 30 years.
Scooter tried in March 2009 to extend a hand of diplomacy towards Iran in an attempt to break the deadlock between the two countries, but since then, the animosity between the two nations has steadily worsened.
Ahmadinejad complained:
Somebody should answer questions whether the US government is dominated by the Zionists or the Zionist regime is controlled by the US government.
Israel, like the United States, has not ruled out a military strike against Iran to halt its “nuclear program”.
Iran has been slapped with four sets of UN sanctions while A-Jad has been President. That has not deterred them at all in their quest to build nuclear weapons, According to Iran, it is not enriching uranium for any military aims. Yeah, right.
At the same time Scooter and A-Jad are playing this game of “chicken”, the Iran Revolutionary Guard is digging mass graves for American soldiers.
At least, that’s what General Moghadam, the Guard’s former deputy chief, said after film footage showed strings of freshly dug graves in the south of the country.
They were close to the site of war graves for the dead of the long war between Iran and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, which devastated the region in the 1980s.
Gen. Moghadam told the Associated Press, which obtained the footage:
The mass graves that used to be for burying Saddam’s soldiers have now been prepared again for US soldiers, and this is the reason for digging this big number of graves. The warning is unlikely to be more than symbolic. No-one expects a land invasion, should the White House authorise a strike on nuclear facilities, while Iran has so far suggested counter-action is most likely to be aimed at American allies in the Gulf and Western bases there.
Gen Moghadam’s claims might be a sign that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is increasingly reliant on the Revolutionary Guard for political backing, is feeling the heat of international diplomatic pressure over his arrogant posture concerning Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
The administration has been trying to take advantage of the diplomatic victory it won in forcing through a new United Nations sanctions package, with the unexpected support of both Russia and China, in June. However, even with pressure on him from Obama and his administration, Ahmadinejad is still pursuing his quest to be a nuclear power. It is a game of “chicken” for the highest stakes imaginable. I pray that Scooter is not the first one to blink.
Sources: drudgereport.com, telegraph.co.uk
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KJ – Barry won’t just blink, he would keep his eyes closed.
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Ask me if I feel safer under Barack, then under Bush….go ahead…ask me….
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No matter how high the stakes, Obama’s high level of incompetency will remain the same. That is one frightening concept when you are dealing with the likes of “A-Jad”
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Glass…
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