I'm surprised no one has noticed the timing of Obama's readching out to the Muslim world.
The better the people of Iran feel towards the US, the worse Amadhinijad(sp) will do.
It's called 'diplomacy' and was just invented as an alternative to 'kill them all', previously the only option one faction in the US knew of.
Edit to add: many on the right don't seem to understand the basics of things like not overreacting to provocation that serves the provoker's interest.
That's how the Croats drew the west into Bosnia - they shot police and teachers until the government reacted strongly enough for them to say "save us from the bad government!"
Indeed, earlier than that, in our own revolution, Sam Adams - a hothead - was privately thrilled when a handful of British kids, terrified by a harrassing mob, shot into the mob and gave him 'a cause' for the revolution, still known today as the 'Boston Massacre', based on their 'overreaction'.
The right still seems largely not to understand the reason 9/11 was done - it was done to cause an overreaction against the Muslim world, in order to stimulate the Muslim world and make them willing to join the ranks of Al Queda. Ironically, 9/11 served the same purpose for the Neocons, who had literally written in their defining document that their desire for power in the Middle East could be greatly accelerated if the Middle Easterners would just give them a 'new Pearl Harbor' to rally around.
Osama wanted the US to invade a Muslim nation, to create the backlash. Bush played into his hands, invading Iraq - saying later he 'remembered how 9/11 felt every day'.
This is why they say these sides 'feed off each other', just as the people who want violence in the Hatlield and McCoy families fed off each other.
A few extremist Al Queda, a few extremist Neocons, and soon the majority of Muslims and Americans find themselves in wars they didn't want serving others' interests.
This is an area learning history helps - how the peace factions in Japan were gradually defeated over years by the war factions with things like our cutting off their oil used to justify war, why the Nazis were able to really seize power by exploiting the fire in the pariliament building, blaming it (falsely) on the communists, again and again how the few who have their own agenda for power manipulate larger groups with 'overreactions'.
Look how the US secretly baited the Soviets into Afghanistan, knowing it would be a costly quagmire for them - a plan revealed much later by Brzenski.
Obama is being the anti-Bush here - reversing the 'shock and awe' diplomacy that helped put this radical president in power in Iran, with an open hand that may remove him.
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