Everyone knows that when it comes to such delicate matters as diplomacy, the Bush Administration resembles not a group of thinking, reasoning adults but rather a room full of spoiled brats. We now have further evidence of that. It seems that when Zalmay Khalilzad, the American ambassador to the United Nations, was in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Form, he committed the faux pas of sitting next to Manouchehr Mottaki.
Mottaki is the Iranian foreign minister. The panel discussion was about Iranian foreign policy. You can see the pattern here.
The White House had a collective fit and "expressed anger" at Khalilzad for his traitorous defiance of political orthodoxy and his thoughtless act of diplomacy. You could almost hear the thuds coming from Pennsylvania Avenue as White House ideologues got the vapors and fainted dead away en masse.
Of course, it's not like Khalilzad or Mottaki talked or anything. They didn't even shake hands, they just sat next to each other. Doesn't matter to the neoconservatives who still hold sway in the Oval Office; they still insist that Iran is the linchpin of the Axis of Evil™ and any contact between Us and Them is a Very Bad Thing.
Oh, please. This is truly pathetic. This is like something out of grade school, where kids pout and hold grudges for the stupidest of reasons. The White House should grow up and act like adults.
Mottaki is the Iranian foreign minister. The panel discussion was about Iranian foreign policy. You can see the pattern here.
The White House had a collective fit and "expressed anger" at Khalilzad for his traitorous defiance of political orthodoxy and his thoughtless act of diplomacy. You could almost hear the thuds coming from Pennsylvania Avenue as White House ideologues got the vapors and fainted dead away en masse.
Of course, it's not like Khalilzad or Mottaki talked or anything. They didn't even shake hands, they just sat next to each other. Doesn't matter to the neoconservatives who still hold sway in the Oval Office; they still insist that Iran is the linchpin of the Axis of Evil™ and any contact between Us and Them is a Very Bad Thing.
Oh, please. This is truly pathetic. This is like something out of grade school, where kids pout and hold grudges for the stupidest of reasons. The White House should grow up and act like adults.
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