Meeting with the leader of Iran "without precondition" was one of President Obama’s most dissected early campaign statements.  Obama has of course backed away from that stance, but his actions toward Iran as president indicate that “he believes that we should speak nicely to our enemies, and carry no stick,” as William Kristol recently described it, writing in The Weekly Standard.Indeed, Obama’s Iranian New Year’s message to “the people and leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” which concludes with a poem, brought the predictable Iranian response that if the U.S. stops accusing Iran of developing nuclear weapons and supporting terrorism they would be happy to talk to us.  The president might just as well have sent Achmadinejad a fruit cake to observe the New Year.  Obama’s first option in foreign affairs is to appease our enemies, but he is playing a dangerous game with...(Read Full Post)