Sunday, July 22, 2007

The Triumph of Hope Over Experience

Iran is arming thugs inside Iraq and is generally at war with us. We are going to talk to Iran about that former part again:

The May 28 meeting marked a break in a 27-year diplomatic freeze between the U.S. and Iran and was expected to have been followed within a month by a second encounter. But following that meeting, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other U.S. officials said Iran had not scaled back what the United States claims is a concerted effort to arm militants and harm U.S. troops. ...

McCormack said the U.S. wanted to use the meeting to warn Iran against continuing its support for militants in Iraq. He offered no explanation for Washington's apparent change of heart about meeting with Tehran.

I guess the first meeting didn't go so well.

This time we'll really insist. That ought to straighten out this little misunderstanding, eh?