Wednesday, June 04, 2008

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2 comments:

Azarmehr said...

Harry

I would be interested to hear your comments on Obama's speech at AIPAC.

Harry Barnes said...

Azarmehr:
I thought that his speech was carefully crafted. It allows him to develop different aspects of his approach to latter distinctive audiences. So although he put things in a pro-Isreali context, he talked of Isreali parents being willing to make sacrifices for the well-being of their children. You could imagine a speech to a pro-Palestine group which would be a form of mirror image.

On Iran, he stressed the dangers both in their support for Hezbollah and in their pro-nuclear programme, whilst pointing to sanctions and "tough minded diplomacy" as the tactics to bring them into line. That leaves his options open, for how tough is tough-minded ? He tackled Ahmadinejad's holocaust denial, but he could have linked this to other human rights issues. He failed to focus on anti-democratic abuses inside Iran itself.