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Carol Platt Liebau | July 16, 2009 10:07 AM

That would be Obama's policy of "engaging" Iran. His new "friends" there are refusing even to discuss their drive toward possessing nuclear weapons, as they blame other countries for the protests on their street.

So the President's diplomacy has managed to have the worst of both worlds. He refused to stand with the Iranian freedom-seekers in any meaningful way, and yet the regime he was courting is obviously willing to treat him with the same contempt they would have shown if he had.