Wednesday, July 16, 2008

APPEASEMENT! J'ACCUSE!!!!

In a stark change of form, President Gorilla Biscuits is moving to increase diplomatic contact with Iran. No doubt emboldening terrorists who wish to destroy our way of life and eat our freedom with hummus on the side. This is a change of his policy of snubbing and bombing threats, and a complete reversal of his childish insistence that any talking is appeasement. Who's Neville Chamberlain now George? You don't even know anymore.

Next month Bush will announce that the State Department will establish a US interests section in Tehran right next to the jihadist literature, self help, and cooking sections of Iran. Setting up a US interests section is basically a halfway house to setting up a full embassy. It also means US diplomats will be stationed in the country.

Less clear is why Bush is also sending Undersecretary of State William Burns to join a scheduled meeting in Geneva between European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and top Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. Burns "will not negotiate with the Iranians nor hold separate meetings, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been announced. Instead, Burns will advance the White House's position that serious negotiations can begin only after Iran suspends uranium enrichment." They must have their childish cake and eat it too. Negotiations to tell them negotiations can't happen until they do stuff that would be agreed to if there was some attempt at negotiations. It also seems like a shady attempt to undermine EU advances without actually trying to do anything of substance.

Maybe this is a first step for when the alleged adults get back in charge. Obama welcomed the decision to send Burns to Geneva and called for continued engagement with Iran. "Now that the United States is involved, it should stay involved with the full strength of our diplomacy," he said in a statement. Admiral Ape Rape didn't release a comment, though the AP is reporting that it heard screamed swear words muffled by a pillow earlier this afternoon.

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