God bless Barack Obama, at today’s hearing he called for regional talks to try and stabilize Iraq and get us and our children out of there. Talk to Iran! Drudge is running it as his main headline (to this Breitbart link). Here is Iranian coverage of the "black hopeful"’s news. It seems to me this is what I’ve been waiting for: an emphatic shift in policy called for by the guy I want to be president. Let us end the mindset that gave rise to this war, he said; well now he is taking on the mindset, now when it matters to American soldiers…
Two years ago the Iraq Study Group said Talk to Iran and Syria, it is the only way to save the situation. Those were American realists, from Hamilton to Baker, with Amb. Daniel Kurtzer in there too. Nothing doing. Kurtzer has said virtually the same thing more recently. Walt and Mearsheimer have called for such talks, too. This seems to me a plain collision of the American interest with the deluded neocon ideology that has ruined this country’s reputation, and killed how many hundreds of thousands of people, and that has privileged rightwing Israeli concerns.
This is the test. What will the American people say? What will conservative Jewish groups say? Will Obama stick by his guns? Will he get backup? Will the new dovish Israel lobby rally support? Game on.
