The Big O., imagining himself talking to Ahmadinejad, has spoken of the Iranian people as deserving consideration, as if talking to A. is a step towards giving them some. 

But Chamberlain’s talking to Hitler undercut the generals who wanted room in which to drop H. in his tracks, Steve Huntley noted yesterday.  The German people’s enthrallment to him was not weakened by talking to him, it was cemented.

O. doesn’t seem to understand.  Liberation movements are thwarted by legitimizing tyrants, and he, President O. would foolishly do just that. 

Oh, not A., he has his spokesman say, but “the Iranian leadership.” 

“He hasn’t named who that leader will be,” [foreign policy adviser Susan Rice] said. “It may, in fact be that by the middle of next year, Ahmadinejad is long gone.”

If he isn’t, then what?  A rather new ball game and quite a comedown from his youthful boldness of last July when he promised to meet the leaders of Iran and four other enemy countries without preconditions during his first year in the White House.

Or does he he think A. the Iranian front man will step aside and let him talk to the mullahs?  Sad to say, he appears not to know s—t from shinola, if you will pardon my Francais.