Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
No, I don't think focusing only on Bush's policy is relevant whatsoever considering his policy wasn't any kind of significant shift from previous admins. About the only thing bringing up Bush alone demonstrates is your myopic focus on Bush as the core of our problems with Iran, which is a clear sign of that "dumbass BDS thing." As far as Clinton, I'm not slamming his policy either. I'm pointing out that it was really no different than Bush and, like Bush, he did what he felt was right regarding Iran.
You should know well why nothing will change in regard to Iran's willingness to engage the us in any meaningful diplomacy. It's because it's the same religious conservatives pulling the strings regardless of who their president is, or ours. However, if we have to go through the motions to prove it to the fools who can't seem to comprehend the futility of it all, fine. Let's do it so they'll finally shut the fuck up. It's worth it for that, if nothing else.
If you don't think that Bush's foreign policy vis a vis Iran was more belligerent than his predecessors, you are simply wrong. All US administrations have attempted to isolate Iran since 1979, Bush's approach to the concept was by far more severe than Clinton (corrected). If you want to try and cry the same old retarded BDS crap when someone compares the new president's foreign policy to the previous one's, that's fine by me. You scream bias against Bush any time someone so much as mentions his name, and you're little more than the boy who cried wolf at this point on it.
About the substance: You're now just making up things you wish I said so you have something good to argue against. I never said Bush was the core of our problems with Iran. As far as if they did what they thought was right, who gives a shit? Their policy was bad. I also think that your idea that diplomacy can't work belies a serious misunderstanding of Iran's goals. It's every bit as shockingly naive as the people you constantly condemn.
Anyways, it seems like we fundamentally agree that diplomacy with Iran is a good thing, so I don't even know what all the dick wagging is about other than some sort of residual antipathy you have towards me. Meh, I'm not really interested.