Obama Intensifies Efforts to Win Jimmy Carter Look-​​a-​​Like Contest

Should you want to know how this

The trip high­lighted how far the admin­is­tra­tion believes that the Afghan gov­ern­ment has to go to make good on promises that Mr. Karzai has made on gov­er­nance and even rein­te­gra­tion with cer­tain rec­on­cil­able mem­bers of the Tal­iban insurgency.

is going to play out look for some news­pa­pers from 1979 with the headline

Carter Pres­sures Shah to Wel­come Aya­tol­lah Khomeini

and then look for some papers from a lit­tle while later with head­lines con­tain­ing the words

Embassy Takeover

some­where on the front page.

I really hope I am com­pletely wrong on this but so far when­ever the words Obama and for­eign pol­icy have appeared together that’s meant some­thing unpleas­ant. Just like, come to think of it, occa­sions where the words Obama and debt and Obama and deficit and Obama and sup­press­ing dis­sent have appeared together.

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Tags: Ayatollah Khomeini, Jimmy Carter, Shah of Iran