Three New Obama Flip Flops: Iran, Iraq, and League of Democracies
- Â We are back to the no-preconditions policy for meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Â Withdrawl is off the table in Iraq
- Â Obama also now embraces John McCain’s call for a League of Democracies
Mr Obama and his advisers stress the Democratic candidate’s readiness to sit down with Iranian leaders without Âconditions.
“Unless you assume that [Iranian negotiators] have IQs less than those of eggplants, they are not likely to make major concessions for the privilege of speaking with us. So the question is: what is your strategy for the talks?” Mr Lake said. :
He stressed that Mr Obama, even after withdrawing troops from Iraq over 16 months as he has promised, would maintain “a residual presence for clearly defined missions”. These would include military training, and “preparedness to go back in if there are specific acts of genocidal violence”. :
Mr Lake was sympathetic to aspects of Mr McCain’s idea of a League of Democracies, one of the centrepieces of the Republican’s foreign policy plans.
Why does this matter? Well, the Iran decision shows that he has no comprehension of the situation before him. On Iraq, he campaigned hard on the promise of total withdrawal.  Moving to the center is for losers, therefore, no money for Obama! The League of Democracies is rather odd, because just 2 days ago, this was said on the subject:
Advisers to Barack Obama have also been critical of the proposal, saying it is an outgrowth of what they call the Bush administration’s “you’re either with us or against us” approach to foreign policy. “I don’t regard this idea as terribly attractive,” says Richard Danzig, a former secretary of the Navy and an Obama national security adviser. “It tends to emphasize the we-they character of the world, when in fact the world is more complicated than that.”
H/T to Ed
July 2, 2008 - 12:52 PM on July 2nd, 2008
Do you think the mainstream media will call him on his flipflops?
July 2, 2008 - 05:19 PM on July 2nd, 2008
This guy changes directions faster than a spinning compass.
July 2, 2008 - 06:19 PM on July 2nd, 2008
Blogger Guy= Check out this video of Glenn Beck discussing with Bobby Jindal how the media has ignored the numerous flip-flops of Barack Obama.