Comments on: Obama’s Nowruz Message

By: atheo

atheo — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:25:26 +0000

m.idrees,

Can you post the relevant part of the Boston.com article that you feel precludes Obama getting advice from his Special Advisor for Iran Dennis Ross?

By: Rumple Stiltskin_24

Rumple Stiltskin_24 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:19:51 +0000

Amongst the many speculations will be the timing and method of this message.

The main point is the bypassing of Congress and the Senate ( and hence the lobby) by a direct television appeal to the Target Audience.
It should now hand Ahmedinejad the next election , if there was any doubt about it.

It seems a combination of genuine US security concerns , and Israels new reputation of “failing in its military objectives” has made the lobbys very strength ( the complete strangulation of the Congress and Senate , and correspondingly the President) into its chief one-dimensional weakness.

It seems the Prime Obama concern is that Pakistan is fast leaving the orbit of control; NATO is not up for the graveyard shift in Afghanistan and Iran is the only ally that can deliver up a stable hiatus whilst the US flees Iraq.The only way Obama can work this is by using the Reagan approach of bypassing Congress ( and the lobby) by continuing this strategy of appealing direct to his target audience within the US via TV.

By: qunfuz

qunfuz — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:19:58 +0000

Yes, this is very positive. But still I worry. If there is no understanding of the justice of some Iranian positions, I wonder how far this can go. If ‘responsibilities’ means abandoning resistance movements, support for which Obama calls ‘violence’ and ‘destruction’, I hope Iran doesn’t become ‘responsible’. And if it doesn’t, what then? Is Obama not setting his initiative up to fail? As for the veiled reference to the nuclear weapons programme, given that the NIE said there is no weapons programme, I wonder what Iran can do to prove responsibility here?

By: New Day « Forever Under Construction

New Day « Forever Under Construction — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:17:34 +0000

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By: m.idrees

m.idrees — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:48:11 +0000

This has nothing to do with Ross. Obama’s getting his advice from different quarters:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/03/14/top_officials_urge_dialogue_with_hamas/

By: atheo

atheo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:43:57 +0000

JOHN V. WHITBECK:

… Dennis Ross, recently named as Hillary Clinton’s special advisor for Iran, is publicly on the record as favoring a brief but visibly intensified “diplomatic” effort to convince Iran to bow to Israeli/American demands — which would, inevitably and necessarily, be unsuccessful — before proceeding on to the attack on Iran which he deems essential to protect Israel’s security interests.

If Dennis Ross recommended that President Obama celebrate the Persian New Year in this peculiar manner (or even wrote the statement read by the president), the cynical and sinister view may, unfortunately, be the more realistic one.

http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/03/meaning-of-reaching-out.html

By: atheo

atheo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:32:41 +0000

Posturing with rhetorical “changiness” sets the stage for an atrocious violent snap back. It’s the “smart” way to start wars of aggression.