If Obama were merely naive, we’d be better off than this:
U.S. President Barack Obama set a rough timetable for his diplomatic outreach to arch-foe Iran for the first time on Monday, saying he wanted to see serious progress by the end of the year.
He also held out the prospect of tougher sanctions against Tehran “to ensure that Iran understands we are serious.”
The only “serious progress” we’re going to see down this road is serious progress towards an Iranian nuke and/or progress towards an Israeli attack on Iran – and that attack, it must be remembered, might end up nuclear if Israel feels it is the only way to insure itself against an Iranian nuke now and for at least a considerable time in the future. Does Obama realize we’re dealing with messianic lunatics in Iran and an Israel which, pardon them, doesn’t want to be exterminated?
I hope he figures it out, soon.