The latest example of the total incompetence of this administration in foreign relations is given in Cheney's very public smack at Russia while in Lithuania last week. Here we are trying to convince Iran that defying the international community on the development of nuclear capabilty is not a good thing and Cheney goes out of his way to piss off one of the two countries with any swing with Iran that could help sell our case.
Couple this with the letter that Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad just sent to Bush encouring an open dialogue and we get some idea of why Cheney went out of his way to jerk the Russian chain.
Why else piss off one of the only potential allies in convincing the Iranians to be a little more reserved if not to make it that much harder to to have face to face talks. The truth is that our leaders don't want anything to ruin their run up to war with Iran.
I have to give it to Ahmad-Nejad. He has managed to shift the burden of a meaningful diplomatic approach to the U.S. Now, if Bush doesn't make some balancing move then any negative result is his to carry.
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