Peace with Iran or War with Syria?

[JackRiddler]

That is the question today, after the exchange of letters among the presidents of Iran and the U.S.

We should all be impressed positively with Obama if he answers for peace, given the pressure to go ahead and bomb Syria (and to ignore the Iranian peace overture) from the pro-war neocon and humanitarian imperialist factions of the military-industrial complex. The disturbing thing is that the two former defense secretaries who just slammed Obama for not having bombed Syria yet - the Bush mob's Iran-Contra gangster Robert Gates and the Clintonista Leon Panetta - both ran the Pentagon under the present administration as the president's own choices.

I'm sure most of us will agree these are not issues for "triangulation."

[JackRiddler]

1. Tri-An-Goo-Lay-Shun kick

[JackRiddler]

2. I guess nobody agrees!

Yay!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Sorry just got here, yes. nt

[JackRiddler]

4. Danke.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Sie sind willkommen nt

[JackRiddler]

6. Almost final kick.

Threadology, no accountin' for it. Live and die by the timing, I expect.

[JackRiddler]

7. And final kick for 3 more readers...

yay!

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. "Humanitarian imperialists." That has a nice ring to it.

[JackRiddler]

10. Thanks, but not my coinage.

[karynnj]

9. Disturbing that they said that now - when it looks like

there is a good chance to get rid of the chemical weapons and a fair chance that they could then go to a negotiated political solution.

It does show how strong the pressures on Obama to attack are. I was not happy that Obama in his speech today favored the Syria resolution backed by a military threat - rather than what Kerry and Lavrov negotiated.

Interesting that he listened to Powers, who has never negotiated anything, to state before the world that a resolution without the treat is useless - when it is clear that Russia will not support it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. We can only have one or the other?

Hey anything that stymies the neocon chicken hawks is okay in my book.

[JackRiddler]

12. Actually, in this case, yes.

[riderinthestorm]

13. If Obama manages to thread this needle, I will be very impressed.

And I may actually become a convert to his version of 11th dimensional chess... (or whatever it is he "plays&quot .

Its still possible he can pull it off. If he does, then his Nobel Peace Prize will have (finally) been truly awarded. I fervently hope there's other discussions happening off camera.