This is a quick comment on the news and a flip-flop on myself.
On Bush and Iran, there is hope **** that progress can be made.
It is all up to what Bush will accept and what Iran will agree to.
We could possibly "Trust but Verify" and any sort of solution depends on others
trusting what we can agree to. While any so-called enemy that might be "appeased" * has little record to base that on. Critics of the administration must hold them accountable and give aid to the "enemy" by assuring accountability, not politics. The big question is whether Iran can in any way accept restrictions on nuclear research while the administration accepts no accountability to international agreements. [NOT! **]
* quotation marks indicate fuzzy English except the Reagan remark.
[This is based only on a radio snippet of Bush's hopes for success.]
[**] - [ This IS an update from www.JustForeignPolicy.org thanks to Thom Hartmann having the Robert Naiman as guest, just prior to having John Bolton speak to the contrary I presume.]
[My original point is that there is always hope that diplomacy, even tough diplomacy, can work, as long as the other side of the table has a reasonable alternative to giving in to what is unreasonable, and if there is no hope that we will be reasonable, then standing fast is just as reasonable, in the light of unreason. While I am not charging unreason, just not open *** reason, while we find it hard to find reason on the other side.]
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*** it is often buried somewhere
[Myth? Pre-visited.
Connected back later.
And dialing in.]
[Mission Impossible Script Writers Guild. ]
**** link added 6-12-08
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buried in another link to a Hartmann guest. Author of Uprising on the progressive front, and I must note the downfall of the bully pulpit. I first thought of Teddy Roosevelt as a part of that history, but it turns out* he got done in by his own militancy, resulting in the sinking of the progressive movement and being the spoiler for Taft, bringing us Woodrow Wilson and the rise of the conservative movement.
* Teddy was an accident of history affording us the progressive leader not the result of grassroots efforts
Also pre-buried was a feeling that the Iran front is a profit bearing prophetic viscious cycle. Meaning whatever prophet or parable believed, there is profit at the bottom of it, not disarmament.
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