Hot Dog Diplomacy

There have been many forms of diplomacy from Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy, which resulted in the Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt to the pending “Hot Dog” diplomacy planned by the Obama Administration scheduled for this coming Fourth of July. Peace is always a noble goal so I will not comment on the merits of extending an olive branch to the mullahs, especially since it has been a generation since the USA has had normal relations with the Persian state. Moreover President Obama may have legitimate reasons for being circumspect—critics say timid—for his conspicuous tempered support for the opposition’s clarion calls to throw out the results of what they deemed as tainted. It is reported that the previous Bush Administration made a deal with the Iranian Mullahs to keep one of their proxies, Muqtada AL Sadr, from wreaking havoc in neighboring Iraq-apparently many of the roadside bombing which caused much of our casualties in Iraq were carried out by Sadr’s militia. If this is true, I cannot and will not fault President Obama for acting on the behalf of the brave men and women fighting in the Iraqi theatre. If on the other hand this is not so, then it would look rather bad that the Germans and the British were more vocal than the USA in their support for the democratic process, which was the brain child of our heritage. Sometimes image is everything and President Obama does not want the lasting image borne out of his “Hot Dog” diplomacy--think of Neville Chamberlain holding in his hand the peace document he had signed with Hitler--of diplomats representing the blood stained hands of the mullahs taking part in our reverent celebration of the Democracy process on the Fourth of July.

-Verily Prime