Remember the new approach to foreign policy? Remember how we were going to be popular again?
We may be popular, specially in Caracas, Tehran and North Korea!
This morning, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal hit the Obama administration very hard over Iran.
The WSJ:
"What a fiasco.
That's the first word that comes to mind watching Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raise his arms yesterday with the leaders of Turkey and Brazil to celebrate a new atomic pact that instantly made irrelevant 16 months of President Obama's "diplomacy."
The deal is a political coup for Tehran and possibly delivers the coup de grace to the West's half-hearted efforts to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.
Full credit for this debacle goes to the Obama Administration and its hapless diplomatic strategy.
Last October, nine months into its engagement with Tehran, the White House concocted a plan to transfer some of Iran's uranium stock abroad for enrichment.
If the West couldn't stop Iran's program, the thinking was that maybe this scheme would delay it.
The Iranians played coy, then refused to accept the offer."
The Wash Post, who endorsed candidate BO, was more brutal:
"THE DEAL struck Monday by Iran with Brazil and Turkey will do nothing to restrain Tehran's nuclear program.It could, however, derail the Obama administration's effort to focus international pressure on Iran and buy the regime more time to enrich uranium and defeat its domestic opposition."
Where is all of that anti-Bush charm that was supposed to make us look different and more politically correct?
Just ask Iran! They are laughing and continuing their nuclear ambitions.
How is that "hope and change" working?
