According to this article, entitled "Iran rebuffs Barack Obama's surprise offer of 'new beginning'":
The tape - which had Farsi subtitles - was distributed to television networks throughout the region and shown at 8am Iranian time. It is the furthest President Obama has gone since taking office towards extending an olive branch to Tehran...Of course,
[T]he hardline Middle East government was quick to respond with a barely tepid response that listed what Iran perceives to be US failures over the previous decade.
5 comments:
Obama is the Special Olympics of Presidencies.
Thanks for the hat tip, Always.
I think that this is a dangerous strategy. It will surely be perceived as weakness. The last thing America needs to look at this stage is weak! God knows America, and the rest of the capitalist West, has been weakened enough by the financial crisis. We don't need to sound weak and fawning as well!
Another success but I stopped counted a week ago.
"counting"
Stopped counting?! There should remain a running ticker tape of fukups to parade on the evening news.
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