Wednesday, September 30, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Michael Ledeen: We've Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years, The seizure of the U.S. embassy followed the failure of Carter administration talks with Ayatollah Khomeini's regime - 'The Obama administration's talks with Iran...are accompanied by an almost universally accepted misconception: that previous American administrations refused to negotiate with Iranian leaders. The truth, as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said last October at the National Defense University, is that "every administration since 1979 has reached out to the Iranians in one way or another and all have failed."...'
