Obama's "Realism"

Here is the latest indictment of Obama's "realism," Iran announced today that it had made additional progress toward uranium enrichment. And today being the day after yesterday, which was the day that the US announced we would be joining the multilateral talks regarding Iran's nuclear program in Geneva, we can be sure that the news from Iran is no coincidence.

Let me reiterate what I posted yesterday regarding the Iranian government. They are interested in stringing us along only to attempt to make us look foolish. They are uninterested in making any concessions or even cooperation with the West, and that's what we can expect from them at these sorts of talks.

Remember the "breakthrough" this past July when the Bush administration said they would send a senior diplomat to the talks regarding Iran's nuclear program (it was the first time that we had directly been a part of engagement)? Well, as demonstrated by this timeline at The Guardian, in the month after our direct engagement Iran "failed to respond to a deadline for it to agree to halt all nuclear activities in exchange for a freeze on further UN sanctions," and "[Iran] later announces it has stepped up its uranium enrichment programme."

The Iranians have responded to these engagements multiple times now with action and rhetoric that is in the opposite direction of what we are aiming for. This to me suggests a failure of method. And if Washington doesn't try a new approach sometime soon, Jerusalem surely will.

7,000 working centrifuges enriching uranium...