On Fox News yesterday, Obama, asked about Iran, said:
"The fact that we have not talked to them means that they have been developing nuclear weapons, funding Hamas, funding Hezbollah."
This statement goes to the very heart of what's wrong with Obama's foreign policy view, and the leftward swing of the Democratic party back toward the orthodoxies of McGovern and Carter. The fact is, the Iranians have not been developing nuclear weapons and funding terrorist proxies across the Middle East because "we" won't talk to them. They are doing these things because their country is run by a fanatical, revolutionary regime that wants to dominate the Middle East. But, as Jeane Kirkpatrick once said, "They always blame America first." Update: A readers send a link to the video.