Let the appeasement begin: Obama already holding “discreet talks” with Iran, Syria

by Infidelesto on February 2, 2009 · Comments

hope…change…. and appeasement…

AFP

US President Barack Obama has already used experts within the last few months to hold high-level but discreet talks with both Iran and Syria, organizers of the meetings told AFP.

Officially, Obama’s overtures toward both Tehran and Damascus have remained limited.

In an interview broadcast Monday, Obama said the United States would offer arch-foe Iran an extended hand of diplomacy if the Islamic Republic’s leaders “unclenched their fist.”

Meanwhile, his secretary of state Hillary Clinton warned that the Israeli-Syrian track of the Middle East peace negotiations took a back seat to the Israeli-Palestinian track, especially because of the recent war in Gaza.

However, even before winning the November 4 election, Obama unofficially used what experts call “track two” discussions to approach America’s two foes in the region.

Nuclear non-proliferation experts had several “very, very high-level” contacts in the last few months with Iranian leaders, said Jeffrey Boutwell, [...]

Former defense secretary William Perry, who served in Obama’s election campaign, participated in some of these meetings focused on “a wide range of issues that separate Iran from the West: not only their nuclear program but the Middle East peace process, Persian Gulf issues,” Boutwell told AFP….

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  • hey dude, i think you've mixed up the headers and posts on your blog. no mention of appeasement here. unless you're reading between the lines (ie. jumping to conculsions).

    i would have thought that early talks about these issues would be the exact opposite of appeasement. i see nothing in this article to suggest that obama is acceding to anyone's demands.

    seriously, if you're comparing obama's diplomacy to chamberlain's cowardice, you are seriously misguided my friend.

    one suspects that you in fact are prone to the same sort of sensationalism and over-statement that your blog apparently professes to be against. it just shows that rampant fundamentalism happens on both sides of the fence.
  • Really, really, worrying indeed. But not at all surprising!!
  • I've followed Obama close enough to know what he's doing by holding talks with evil dictatorships around the world without pre-conditions (something he's told us he would do) who would gladly destroy the US if given the chance. I never said a word about Chamberlain, you did. Obama's ultimate goal is to convince these people that peace and love and flowers are the best answer. But he forgets that these people are driven by a sick fundamental religious ideology that drives them to do what they do.

    Obama simply doesn't understand the true goals of the Mullah's in Iran. Does Obama have a clue about Shia Islam? The return of the Mahdi? What needs to happen for their religious dreams to come true? DO YOU know anything about it? All it takes is someone with half a brain to look into this stuff and see what's really going on here. Stop making excuses for THE ONE. Look up Shia Islam. Look up the Mahdi. Look at what Iran keeps doing and saying over and over again. They would gladly destroy Israel, and that's exactly what their trying to do by pursuing Nukes.

    Obama thinks he's some divine figure who can somehow create a path to peace with someone who wants nothing but to destroy Israel and the US. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an ignoramus..

    Do you think we won the Cold War by sitting down and negotiating with the Soviet Union and "asking them nicely" to not expand their nuclear arsenal?

    "Peace through Strength" is a slogan that worked quite well during the Cold War. Jimmy Carter did exactly what Obama is trying to do while getting walked all over by multiple dictators around the world. Check your history, my friend, seems like you haven't learned...We're supposed to learn from our mistakes, not repeat them.
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