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June 30, 2008
Obama vs. Europe
Obama’s stance on “unconditional” negotiations with Iran is not making the democratic nominee any friends in Europe. Obama has already backed off his initial statements early in the campaign cycle when he accounced, “that he’d seek unconditional talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Later, he changed that to talks with “appropriate Iranian leaders” and tried to skirt the “unconditional” bit of his pledge by saying that some “preparatory work” might be needed before he’d sit with an Iranian interlocutor.”
Obama’s impulsive foreign policy stance with Iran is having the effect of pulling the proverbial rug out from under the feet of the European leaders who have been working with the current administration to put up a unified front against Iran’s goals enriching uranium. Obama’s bold stance of “dropping a unanimous Security Council condition would simply be interpreted by Iran and America’s allies as unconditional surrender and America’s friends would view this as confirmation of America’s basic unreliability,” Heisbourg, one of Europe’s leading strategic analysts, told The Washington Post - “a hell of a way to start a presidential term.”
So is this another issue that Obama will flip flop on or will he stay the course? Going it alone has obviously proven disasterous for the Bush Administration which is why after several years of failing in foreign policy arena, with “rogue” nations, they decided to work with our allies and achieve a consesus before moving forward. If Obama becomes President I hope he does the same.
Is going out on our own, alone, the kind of “Change” we’d “Hoped” for?
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