[Peace-discuss] Our alert: "Iran cooties"

Thu Sep 19 22:20:38 UTC 2013

Persian cooties.

Not to be confused with the LICE  told by the Obama administration.

On 09/20/13 0:46, Robert Naiman wrote:
> We're trying the "short subject line" this time. That seems to be what 
> the cool kids do.
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> *Urge President Obama to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at 
> the UN next Tuesday.*
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> In international diplomacy, gestures matter. This is particularly true 
> for efforts to promote real diplomacy between the United States and Iran.
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> For three decades, the United States has mostly pursued an “Iran 
> cooties” policy. We can’t meet with Iranian leaders, because someone 
> might interpret that to mean that we think that the Iranian government 
> is “legitimate.” OMG! We might get Iran cooties!
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> It sounds ridiculous, and it is. And it has a real cost in human 
> lives. Because of the "Iran cooties" policy, it’s harder to use 
> diplomacy to end wars in the Middle East, like the Syrian civil war.
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> On Tuesday, President Obama has a historic opportunity to end the 
> “Iran cooties” policy. Iran’s newly-elected, pragmatic, pro-diplomacy 
> President Hassan Rouhani is going to be at the United Nations General 
> Assembly. So is US President Barack Obama.
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> Here are *three things you can do* to help try to get President Obama 
> to put the "Iran cooties" policy to rest:
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>       President Obama to meet President Rouhani on Tuesday. You
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>       bombing of Syria is that MoveOn got engaged in opposition to the
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