Don’t Panic: Will Obama bring peace with Iran?
November 25, 2008 at 12:22 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in News
Barack Obama’s not even president yet, but he’s already honoring his controversial campaign pledge to hold face-to-face meetings with America’s worst enemies. Last week he met with George W. Bush.
Bush gave Obama a tour of some of the White House, including the Oval Office, the Lincoln Bedroom, the Nixon Incinerator, the William Henry Harrison Office Supply Closet, etc.
The pair also discussed policy. Details were scant, but one of the topics likely was the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran.
Obama’s promise to reinvigorate U.S. diplomacy by actually allowing U.S. diplomats to be diplomatic has many hoping our dangerously hateful relationship with Iran might improve.
Improvement is a reasonable expectation. Short of all-out war, relations with Iran can’t get much worse. But don’t expect Obama and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be sharing kabobs and O’Doul’s at the White House anytime soon.
The deep animosity between Iran and the U.S. predates the Bush administration. Heck, it predates Obama’s birth.
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