Russia — Bedrock of What Passes for Our Iran Policy

I wonder what the State Department will say the Soviet rebirth means for its preposterous diplomatic strategy to look like it’s doing something to prevent Iran from building nukes.

In May 2006, when the administration abandoned the Bush Doctrine as well as long-standing U.S. policy to refrain from direct official contacts in favor of Secretary Rice’s preference for face-to-face negotiations with terrorists, Condi aides chirped that their deal “commits China and Russia to a long list of specific steps to punish Iran if it refuses to halt its enrichment program.”  Less than three months later, when it was painfully apparent that the king had no clothes, State conceded that, in fact, there were no such commitments.

Yet, it remains our “policy” to rely on this diplomacy and, of course, the good graces of Comrade Putin.