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To: LindyBill who wrote (253261)6/6/2008 1:51:17 AM
From: Nadine Carroll   of 793845
 
Consider his facile observations about President Kennedy's first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna in 1961. Obama saw it as a meeting that helped win the Cold War, when in fact it was an embarrassment for the American side. The inexperienced Kennedy performed so poorly that Khrushchev may well have been encouraged to position Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, thus precipitating one of the Cold War's most dangerous crises.


Obama is worse than that. Kennedy certainly was never under any illusions that he could charm Khrushchev into amiability. He knew he had to project strength. He just failed to do so. Having failed, he knew and acknowledged that he had failed.

Obama neither understands the need for strength nor the consequences of failure. Obama is pretending (as most of the left is pretending) that Iran can be assuaged by diplomatic charm. He has said that Iran cannot be a real threat because it does not possess the divisions of the Soviet Union, and that it only became embolded because of American missteps in Iraq, as if its emnity and rogue status did not date from 1979, and as if diplomacy had not been tried before.

Obama is a child of the blame-America-first multi-culti left that instinctively blames America for anybody's emnity. On one day, he blames Iranian emnity on the Iraq war, on the next, he assures AIPAC that he will tackle the Iranian threat.
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