Really, Gordon Brown's socialism and his belief in Obama's weakness are immaterial to the TOPIC of the OP.
The point of this thread is that Iran has run roughshod diplomatically and politically because Obama lacks principle.
He campaigned insiting that there would be "pre-conditions" to negotiations with Iran, and that a nuclear Iran was "unacceptable."
He lied. Iran knew it. The world knows it. It has a price.
Iran has taken advantage of the apparent and real wekaness of Obama's commitment to ANYTHING other than his own personal agenda.
The perceived (and obvious) weakness emboldens others to snub disarmament talks and encourages them to expand their proliferation activities.
Witness Russian attempts to sell S-300 missiles to Iran when it says it won't. Witness N. Korea's expansion of nuclear weapon development, even as it says it wants to open talks with the West.
For eight months the administration has reiterated its ultimatum that either Iran must agree to direct talks on its nuclear program by Sept. 30 or we will get economic sanctions from the United Nations -- during which eight months we have been dangling before Russia offers of rescission of our anti-missile commitments to Poland and the Czech Republic in exchange for Russian cooperation with sanctions (and general nuclear disarmament).
Then last week, in perhaps coordinated succession, Russia refused to support sanctions, Iran offered to talk maybe about nukes, we accepted talks, Iran then refused to discuss nuclear issues -- and we nonetheless continued to agree to talk under whatever terms are offered by the fraudulently re-elected murderer of his own people and aspiring Jewish genocidist, Mahmoud Amadinejad. For the greatest nation on Earth to accept such impertinent treatment by so vile a despot is a profound lesson in humility.
washingtontimes.com...
We are being taken advantage of at every negotiation solely because everyone else (including Gordon Brown, Merkel and Sarkozy, the rest of the EU, Venezuela, et c.), but Obamites, can see that Barack Obama has no spine in foreign policy and can be taken advantage of.
That's the point of the thread.
Call him "even tempered," if you want. The rest of the world sees him as a push over.
Deny ignorance.
jw
