The notion that Iran would abandon President Assad because he gassed his own people may strain credulity for you and me, but recall that this is a president who actually thought writing a nice letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei would lead to a breakthrough in nuclear negotiations. Self delusion is a large part of Obama's foreign policy so why should it surprise us that he thinks Iran is a sane actor on the world stage? Washington Examiner: Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, hoped that a team of UN investigators - many of whom, presumably, have a longstanding relationship with Iranian leaders -- could write a report that would convince Iran to abandon its ally at the behest of the United States. "We worked with the UN to create a group of inspectors and then worked for more than six months to get them access to the country on the logic that perhaps the presence of an investigative team in the country might deter future attacks,"...(Read Full Post)