When candidate Barack Obama promised "Hope & Change" he forgot to mention the hope part would be his foreign policy. Iranian security forces once again beat anti-government protesters on Wednesday, violently attacking citizens who dared to speak against their oppressive government. Even those who simply marched silently wearing the green scarves supporting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's opposition were at risk.

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Yesterday the United Nations presented a parade of buffoons that, were international tensions not so high, would have been comical. Perhaps when the institution was founded in 1945 if might have served a purpose. There definitely was reason to hope back then that it might. But it has failed, miserably and repeatedly, to live up to its charter "to maintain international peace and promote cooperation in solving international economic, social and humanitarian problems."

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will address the United Nations General Assembly today. So will US President Barack Obama. According to an interview he gave yesterday, Ahmadinejad plans to continue lying about his country's nuclear ambitions and he will attempt to portray Iran as the innocent and reasonable party in the upcoming discussion of nuclear issues next week with six world powers including the United States. The big question is what will the American president say?

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While our president was yukking it up on Letterman, Iran's president said Monday that he is proud of his recent statements questioning whether the Holocaust was "a real event" and calling it a pretext used by Jews to trick the West into backing the creation of Israel. (source) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be speaking Wednesday to the U.N. General Assembly and in less than two weeks Iran will enter key negotiations with the United States and others seeking concessions on Iran's nuclear program. Meanwhile President Obama accepted a heart shaped potato from an audience member at a Late Show taping.

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"We are looking to...sit down and talk to the Iranians and offer them two paths. And one brings them back into the community of nations, and the other has some very stark consequences," so says David Axelrod, President Obama's top adviser. (source) Stage a fraudulent election, ban any semblance of a free press, violently quash a political protest by beating, imprisoning and murdering your own people and the Obama administration will invite you to tea. How utterly civilized and how completely repulsive.

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