{"id":8567,"date":"2015-03-03T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T23:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2015-03-03T16:42:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T23:42:01","slug":"diplomacy-with-a-regime-that-has-declared-their-intent-to-destroy-you-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/03\/03\/diplomacy-with-a-regime-that-has-declared-their-intent-to-destroy-you-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomacy with a Regime that has Declared their Intent to Destroy You, Isn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>The Democrats solution for peace with Iran. | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetanyahuSpeech?src=hash\">#NetanyahuSpeech<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/iFeH7QuLur\">pic.twitter.com\/iFeH7QuLur<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/572816282598260737\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of Congress to give fair warning of the intent of Iranian leaders.  Unsurprisingly, all the usual suspects threw a hissy-fit.  Why did they have a hissy-fit?  Because doubting that diplomatic solutions with a regime that had openly declared their intent to commit genocide somehow totes bad!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The media, of course, were the first to put their feet in their collective mouth:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Hey remember when our foreign policy was based on reacting to actual attacks not just potential perceived threats?!  Yeah that.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sallykohn\/status\/572797392229158912\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sallykohn\">@sallykohn<\/a>, Israel basing their foreign policy to &quot;reacting to actual attacks&quot; = waiting to be Nuked.  Why do you support genocide?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/572817577375735808\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Iran or ISIS could throw <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sallykohn\">@sallykohn<\/a> off a building (and would) and she&#39;d compliment them on the view on the way down. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ZKf5oSzDP3\">pic.twitter.com\/ZKf5oSzDP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob Owens (@bob_owens) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bob_owens\/status\/572831693645713409\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidaxelrod\">@davidaxelrod<\/a> Pro-tip: The Iranian leaders aren&#39;t interested in sipping hot cocoa while talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Obamacare?src=hash\">#Obamacare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/572811377057787904\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?324646-1\/house-democrats-response-prime-minister-netanyahu-address-congress\" target=\"_blank\">Congressional<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?324641-5\/senate-democrats-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahus-address-congress\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats<\/a> got in on the act:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe frameborder='0' width='512' height='390' scrollable='no' src='http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/standalone\/?324646-1\/house-democrats-response-prime-minister-netanyahu-address-congress'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseDemocrats\">@HouseDemocrats<\/a> complaining about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetanyahuSpeech?src=hash\">#NetanyahuSpeech<\/a> is like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseofCommons\">@HouseofCommons<\/a> members whining about Churchill in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/572821875614593024\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>House Democrats congratulate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bibi?src=hash\">#Bibi<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerBoehner\">@SpeakerBoehner<\/a> for their &quot;political theater&quot;. | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetanyahuSpeech?src=hash\">#NetanyahuSpeech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/572813782902185984\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>House Democrats are flipping <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bibi?src=hash\">#Bibi<\/a> the bird. | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetanyahuSpeech?src=hash\">#NetanyahuSpeech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/572813946484219904\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>House Democrat just said that Iran&#39;s policy is &quot;bizarre&quot;. It&#39;s not bizarre, but it is evil.  Understand it is evil = understand Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/572820672776286208\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetanyahuSpeech?src=hash\">#NetanyahuSpeech<\/a> is not unprecedented: A Democratic House flipped the bird to Truman by inviting MacArthur to speak.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/572823040091955200\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The President, obviously, felt the need to whine about it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kVo07ioEpOY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>The idea that we the only choice vis a vis Iran is either compromise or total war is false manichean one. | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetanyahuSpeech?src=hash\">#NetanyahuSpeech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/572822754862473217\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Netanyahu&#8217;s entire speech can be seen below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lELXynhbS84\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To whit:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p>Diplomacy with a regime that has declared their intent to destroy you, isn&#39;t.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseDemocrats\">@HouseDemocrats<\/a> = FAIL. | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetanyahuSpeech?src=hash\">#NetanyahuSpeech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/572821597100224512\">March 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obama-chamberlain.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"obama chamberlain\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obama-chamberlain.jpg 750w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obama-chamberlain-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Diplomacy with a Regime that has Declared their Intent to Destroy You, Isn't\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of Congress to give fair warning of the intent of Iranian leaders.  Unsurprisingly, all the usual suspects threw a hissy-fit.  Why did they have a hissy-fit?  Because doubting that diplomatic solutions with a regime that had openly declared their intent to commit genocide somehow totes bad!\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obama-chamberlain.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats solution for peace with Iran. | #NetanyahuSpeech pic.twitter.com\/iFeH7QuLur &mdash; The Political Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) March 3, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of Congress to give fair warning of the intent of Iranian leaders. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/03\/03\/diplomacy-with-a-regime-that-has-declared-their-intent-to-destroy-you-isnt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[15,65,22,3,30],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-war-terror","tag-democrats","tag-doom","tag-fail","tag-obama","tag-scoamf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8567"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8574,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions\/8574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}