A day after The Times underplayed Obama's video outreach to the Iranians, the newspaper of record gets the significance of his Nowruz (Zoroastrian new year) statement. Huge. Death knell to the neocons. Obama concluded the statement, “Thank you, and Eid-eh Shoma Mobarak.” I'm surprised people aren't making the connection to Kennedy's famous Ich bin ein Berliner declaration of 1963. That was a cold war declaration. This declaration marks the beginning of the end of the war of civilizations…
