Do you remember candidate Obama, the guy who said he would sit down and negotiate with Iran- pursue a diplomatic approach with the nefarious regime?  How, through his leadership, he’d bring together UN Security Council members to impose sanctions that would force Iran to halt their nuclear ambitions?  Well, after 13 months of lost time and wasted efforts it appears that the Obama administration is about to adopt the same Bush policies Obama campaigned against.

As the apprentice President continues to discover,  you can’t negotiate with terrorist or terrorist regimes.  Regardless of how many times you apologize or placate those with a radical ideology, it will not alter their determination to destroy you.  Regardless of whether you try terrorist in military court or in civilian courts, you will not earn their respect.  Perhaps the apprentice President has finally learned a lesson from a seasoned President, and that lesson is that it’s his duty to protect and defend this country even if he means you won’t be personally loved.

From the Guardian:

Hillary Clinton’s sudden volley of shots at Iran marks the end of an engagement policy that never really began. She wants to convince the world that the regime in Tehran is opposed to serious talks with the west. That may be true, but we’ll probably never know because in fact, no one has offered such talks.

In laying out the American approach to Iran, Clinton showed how little US foreign policy has changed since the last years of the Bush administration. President Bush famously explained that he would not negotiate with unfriendly regimes because he didn’t want to “reward bad behaviour”. He wanted states like Iran to change of their own accord, not as a result of negotiation but as a pre-condition for being allowed to negotiate.

Clinton embraces this same idea. She rejects the view that as Iran becomes more threatening and approaches nuclear breakout capacity, diplomatic engagement becomes more urgent. Instead she takes the opposite view. “We don’t want to be engaging while they are building their bomb,” she said this week.

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It was just a few weeks ago that the liberal media began touting the “success” of Obama’s foreign policy approach toward Iran. One day after the Obama administration threw Poland and the Czech Republican under the bus by announcing it would not deploy an anti-missile defense system in their country, Russia hinted that it would be open to stronger sanctions toward Iraq. Well, it appears the celebrations by the liberal media were a bit premature.

What did Obama get for screwing over two of our strongest allies, Poland and the Czech Republic? Nothing. On a trip to Russia, Hillary Clinton was told, “Nyet”. Russian Prime Minister Putin said that he saw no need in frightening the Iranians or for sanctions against the country.

Obama and Clinton were foolish to believe that weakening our defense and shafting our allies would win any sort of concession from the Russians.  The Obama administration’s foreign policy is naive and dangerous.  They lack the political and foreign policy acumen to fully grasp the savvy approach that the Russians are employing.  The Russian government knows that sanctions will not work and that the United States will not tolerate a nuclear Iran.  The Russian need only to sit back and claim that they were not responsible nor did they participate in any actions that would be viewed negatively by the Iranian people and Muslims.

And if deciding not to deploy an anti-missile defense system in Eastern Europe wasn’t bad enough, the Obama Administration has agreed to let the Russians visit all of our nuclear sites and count all of our missiles.  I suppose the next thing this administration will do is provide the Sears’ Tower structural engineering plans to Osama Bin Laden.  Or maybe they can provide the North Koreans with our defense plans we have implemented in South Korean.  For the life of me, I can not understand what this guy is trying to do with the national security of this country.  I truly want to believe that it’s plain ignorance and lack of experience that’s to blame for this inexcusable actions, but I have a growing suspicion that there may be something more insidious at play.

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