THE HEIGHT OF IDIOTIC APPEASEMENT:l IRAN SANCTIONS ARE WORKING, SO OBAMA AND HILLARY WANT TO OFFER IRAN QAN OLIVE BRANCH!?!?

NYTIMES:

... an orchestrated series of global sanctions has brought more economic pain for Iran than its government anticipated, are making a renewed appeal to Iranian leaders to reopen negotiations on the country’s nuclear program that collapsed last year.

The administration’s renewed opening to Iran comes as evidence mounts that gasoline shipments to the country have slowed drastically, that at least some banks, from Europe to Pakistan, have cut off dealings with the country for fear that they will lose access to the United States financial system and that Iranian officials are unable to get foreign investment in a series of multibillion-dollar oil and gas projects.

Much of that evidence has been put forward by local media in the Persian Gulf region and is difficult to confirm, although officials with the United States Treasury Department say they also believe that Iran is having trouble getting investment for oil and gas projects.

Mrs. Clinton argued that “the scope and reach” of an orchestrated set of sanctions adopted over the past two months in the United States, Europe and parts of Asia “have had real bite,” and have given the West new leverage. Iran’s leadership, she argued, has “undertaken dramatic diplomatic and commercial maneuvers to prevent the sanctions from being imposed on them, but they are falling short, much to their surprise.”

But both Mrs. Clinton, in a 20-minute telephone conversation on Friday, and Mr. Obama, in an unusual assessment to editorial writers and columnists at the White House last week, acknowledged that Iranian leaders might be unwilling to give up the nuclear program — a huge source of national pride — despite the escalating cost.

“It may be that their ideological commitment to nuclear weapons is such that they’re not making a simple cost-benefit analysis on this issue,” Mr. Obama told editorial writers and columnists in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Wednesday. One of Mr. Obama’s advisers said that while Iran had indicated a willingness to start some kind of talks in September, its reaction to the sanctions “could be to speed up the nuclear program.”

Iran says that its nuclear program is strictly for peaceful purposes, a claim that many Western countries doubt.

Mr. Obama’s and Mrs. Clinton’s back-to-back public statements appeared part of an effort to signal to the Iranian people that the sanctions would only worsen if the Iranian government did not find what Mrs. Clinton called “a pathway” to negotiations. Mr. Obama went further, telling the columnists that he wanted “to put before the Iranians a clear set of steps that we would consider sufficient to show that they are not pursuing nuclear weapons.” He added, “They should know what they can say yes to.”

WOULD FDR OR TRUMAN LOOKED FOR SOMETHING FOR HITLER "TO SAY YES TO" - SHORT OF AN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!?!?

NO EFFIN' WAY!

WE OUGHT TO BE RUTHLESSLY PURSUING REGIME CHANGE, AND SIGNALING TO THE IRANIAN PEOPLE THAT IF THEY OVERTHROW THEIR JIHADIST OVERLORDS WE WILL BE THERE TO HELP THEM REBUILD IRAN AS A DEMOCRATIC, PLURALISTIC AND NON-THREATENING NATION, AND AN ALLY OF THE WEST - AS IT ONCE WAS.

INSTEAD, OBAMA SEEKS NEGOTIATIONS WITH AHMADINEJAD.

IDIOT.

WE CAN PUT AN END TO OBAMA'S IDIOTIC LEFT-WING APPEASEMENT THIS NOVEMBER: VOTE GOP.