Bush flip-flopping? NO! Politicians NEVER do that…
LONDON — The United States in the next month will announce plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years, a British newspaper said on Thursday.
“The Guardian has learned that an announcement will be made in the next month to establish a U.S. interests section in Tehran, a halfway house to setting up a full embassy,” the paper’s Washington correspondent, Ewan MacAskill, said in its front-page, unsourced report.
“The move will see U.S. diplomats stationed in the country.”
But senior U.S. diplomat Undersecretary of State William Burns said in testimony to Congress last week the United States has not cemented its decision.
The Guardian said the development was “a remarkable turnaround in policy by President George Bush, who has pursued a hawkish approach to Iran throughout his time in office.”
In a break with past policy, the Bush administration is sending Burns to observe talks in Switzerland with Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.
Now this might look a LOT like a flip-flop, but Dubya has been saying for the past two years that we need to resolve the nuclear issue DIPLOMATICALLY. This is another diplomatic step, albeit one I dislike. A lot. If military intervention is eventually required, at least we can honestly say we tried diplomacy.
Read the rest on FOXNews.
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