Munich and the Continuity Between the Bush and Obama Foreign Policies
February 9, 2009 | 2004 GMT

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By George Friedman
While the Munich Security Conference brought together senior leaders from most major countries and many minor ones last weekend, none was more significant than U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. This is because Biden provided the first glimpse of U.S. foreign policy under President Barack Obama. Most conference attendees were looking forward to a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration. What was interesting about Biden’s speech was how little change there has been in the U.S. position and how much the attendees and the media were cheered by it.
After Biden’s speech, there was much talk about a change in the tone of U.S. policy. But it is not clear to us whether this was because the tone has changed, or because the attendees’ hearing has. They seemed delighted to be addressed by Biden rather than by former Vice President Dick Cheney — delighted to the extent that this itself represented a change in policy. Thus, in everything Biden said, the conference attendees saw rays of a new policy.
Policy Continuity: Iran and Russia
Consider Iran. The Obama administration’s position, as staked out by Biden, is that the United States is prepared to speak directly to Iran provided that the Iranians do two things. First, Tehran must end its nuclear weapons program. Second, Tehran must stop supporting terrorists, by which Biden meant Hamas and Hezbollah. Once the Iranians do that, the Americans will talk to them. The Bush administration was equally prepared to talk to Iran given those preconditions. The Iranians make the point that such concessions come after talks, not before, and that the United States must change its attitude toward Iran before there can be talks, something Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani emphasized after the meeting. Apart from the emphasis on a willingness to talk, the terms Biden laid out for such talks are identical to the terms under the Bush administration.

We at the “Jaff Sassani Organizations” from Iran and Iraq have been writing about the Wrong policy of the US Government around the World and Especially about Russian, Iran and “Muslim World”.

Please read our articles in the addresses below:

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Dear American people please take your time to fix the wrong doing of your Government around the World. Stop wrong policy in favor of the right policy to help other nations just like what you did after the World War II.

You country are suffering “Morally and Economically” because of the special interest and the wrong policy of the US Government for the last fifty years.

The World people are more educated and smarter people. They see your country as an Imperialist change that perceptions now before it are to late. Not let special interest lobbyist run the USA again.

People like former President Clinton, Dr. Zbigniew Bzrezinski, Dr. Hennery Kissinger ideas are outdated and dead wrong.
We are loyal friend of the US people and want to warn you about the wrong policy of your Government in the past and hope your new Governments are smarter and more have humanity toward other nations around the World. That is the way to make ally and friends not sale others for small gains. They are putting up Kurds for sale; the Kurdish people are the only nation want to be your friend but your Governments are always disappointing them over and over.

Sincerely,
Jaff Sassani
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