Our Man in Tehran
If that White House run doesn’t work out for Barack Obama—and, frankly, he sounds like he couldn’t get into Animal House—he’s got what it takes to be spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran:
“It is important to have tough sanctions on Iran, particularly on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which supports terrorism…. But these sanctions must not be linked to any attempt to keep our troops in Iraq, or to take military action against Iran.”
Or, as the Iranians themselves put it:
“The U.S. is well aware that it might be easy to start such an action against Iran but ending that would not be then in the hands of U.S. officials. Such action will definitely end up in U.S. collapse.”
It’s hard to have a discussion on any issue if you’re not answering the same questions. Obama is answering the question “Do you favor military action against Iran?”
But what’s his answer to “Iran is heedless of warnings from the UN and other international roganizations to scrap their nuclear ambitions. What do you intend to do about it?”
Because Iran’s got an answer to your sanctions:
“They have applied all their efforts to reduce the efficiency of this revolutionary body. Now as always, the corps is ready to defend the ideals of the revolution more than ever before.”
Cat got your tongue, Barack?
PS: Maybe Barack Hussein Obama can tuck al-Gore in an intern at Al Jazeera or something.