McCain’s Foreign Policy Chief Confused About Iran
McCain’s Foreign Policy Chief Confused About Iran
In a conference call today, John McCain’s foreign policy spokesman Randy Scheunemann accused Barack Obama of “walking back” an earlier offer to meet with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Stating that Obama now says ” he would only meet with appropriate [Iranian] leaders,” Scheunemann snickered that “Generally, the president is considered the head of a country.”
That may be generally true, but it is not true of Iran. In several previous posts, we noted that McCain seems confused about who is really in charge in Iran. As reporter Joe Klein tried to point out to McCain several weeks ago, it is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, not President Ahmadinejad, who is the head of the country. This seems like something Americans might want their president to have more than just “general” knowledge of.
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Sounds like a similar disassociation of facts that led us to a war in Iraq. Anyone think McCain is doing the same thing with Iran? War has proven to be a parasite to our country, why start another?
June 4th, 2008 at 12:33 pmActually, this can work to our advantage. You can meet with the president of Iran because he does not have actual authority to conduct foreign policy. It is a good way to initiate diplomatic talks without the risk of creating binding agreements. We can feel out the Iranians while leaving options open. Actually, shows some pretty good strategy on the part of Obama.
June 4th, 2008 at 3:21 pm