Obama to Ahmadinejad: Let’s have coffee with croissants and talk

Can’t say I am surprised by the recent uproar over Obama being labelled “Appeaser” by George Bush, but I am a little taken aback by how all the media bloggers and commentators have so over-simplified the statements and ideas. For anyone, especially if you have the intelligence to read and write a blog, to think that Obama would simply pick-up the phone the day he became the President and ring the Iranian President and go “Hey Ahmad, I understand you are angry with us and Israel, but why don’t you get on a plane and come on over to the White House and we can talk over coffee and croissants and see if we can find a solution to your problems.”, would have to be absolutely nuts. Even I understand that it would have to be more nuanced then that and I like to keep things really simple.

I believe I know that people don’t really think Obama means the above scenario when he says we should talk with our enemies, even Jimmy Carter didn’t go that far, and if we know that, then why don’t we give it a try. George Bush tried it with N.Korea as well as with Libya so why the ruckus over trying to talk to Iran. We are talking to them over the security situation in Iraq. Or is it that politics has become so partisan that we will shoot down any idea no matter how good just because it came from the other side.

If that is the case we will never solve any of our problems and I expected better from McCain.