A very good article that asks a question I always wondered. Why must it be America who reaches out to Iran?  What is so important about Iran that we must kiss up to them and hope they like us.

Why is the burden of US-Iran engagement only on Washington?

President Barack Obama has made outreach to the Islamic Republic of Iran a foreign policy centerpiece of his administration. At his inauguration, he promised that if adversaries of the United States would unclench their fists then Washington would extend a hand. Then, in his first major television interview, he told Al-Arabiya satellite television, “It is important for us to be willing to talk to Iran, to express very clearly where our differences are, but [also] where there are potential avenues for progress. And we will over the next several months be laying out our general framework and approach.”

He has. US diplomats have sought out their Iranian counterparts at international forums and agreed to meet Iranian officials without precondition. On March 20, Obama released a Nowruz greeting in which, without precedent, he declared, “The United States wants the Islamic Republic of Iran to take its rightful place in the community of nations,” implicitly recognizing the current government as the legitimate representative of the Iranian people.

Is Iran such a powerful nation that America must go on its knees to? Iran is a Islamo-Fascist regime that hates America. They openly call for Islamic domination of the world. Ideologically they are Muslim version of Nazi Germany. Iran’s real strength lies in the support it receives from the Media and the International Progressive movement. If it wasn’t for that no one would care about Iran.

It is a sad day when it is America that is viewed as having to go hat in hand for a country to be nice. They should be the ones doing it.