Hot Dog Diplomacy
Still on, as the Great Satan extends an invite to mullah diplomats on the Fourth. O admin’s Strategic Mullah Hotdog Initiative looks like a pretty dumb idea but that doesn’t mean patriotic American diplomats can’t make it work. Mullah-Proof Your Fourth field guide below. News first from AFP:
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters.
President Barack Obama’s administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
“There’s no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.
“We have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran,” Kelly said. “We tried many years of isolation, and we’re pursuing a different path now.”
But he said it was not clear if Iranian diplomats had accepted the invitations.
The State Department has said that the invitations are largely a symbolic gesture of goodwill and that the July 4 barbecues were not intended to take up substantive policy matters.
Bizarre. Absurd. Reprehensible. The notion of idly breaking bread with the representatives of men who are killing their own people, with no sign they intend to stop, in addition to having killed a lot of ours, on a holiday devoted to celebrating freedom.
A great opportunity for revolution-minded Iranian diplomats and their families to defect, I suppose. Only one problem. Could they trust the Obama admin not to throw them back?
OK, one other problem. Never mind that to eat dog is haram. Are those going to be kosher hot dogs? I mean, technically, that’s what a good Muslim wants. No chance any pork shoulder got in there. Except, you know …
And the traditional holiday American beverages are out. Coca Cola … too culturally imperialist. Beer … wicked haram.
(Jenn Rubin at Commentary says let’s make them feel at home … with Israeli couscous from Trader Joe’s!)
Maybe the Obama admin sees it as some kind of propaganda coup. Big-hearted Americans break bread with despots on a day devoted to liberty. I could see it that way, if it weren’t for all the sucking up to despots he’s been doing … nope, not even then.
So what are the chances any Iranian diplomat is going to be allowed to attend an event that is all about throwing off the yoke of tyranny? Unless the mullahs decide it would be fun to make the Americans look bad with a lot of chummy international photo ops while people are being killed in the streets of Tehran?
I recommend the United States embassies and career diplomats that are being compelled to go along with this travesty mullah-proof their Fourth of July events by inviting a lot of girls in American flag bikinis, just to be on the safe side. It’s a surefire antidote to Obama’s latest dumb foreign policy plan!
All-American Daisy Mae, slightly militaristic overtones. That works.
Steamy Bay Watch-inspired … drive those mullahs crazy!
Come hither, mullah.
American Flag Bikini Idol.
American flag bikini girl next door. Kind of like the American Dream bikini …
Hang on, how’d she get in there? Well, I guess it is an American flag.
Hey, where’d that guy come from!?! American dude’s Euro-stylin … Never mind, free country, that’ll give the mullahs something to think about.
No reason more conservative guys can’t get in on the fun.
It’s Fourth of July, we’re playing baseball!
Aww, sorry bout that, Mahmoud! Can’t catch, huh?
Here’s a good one:
Yeah, that’d do it. Y’all come back now, y’hear?
Allah at HotAir: “a gesture of solidarity per our two nations’ shared interest in life, liberty, and shooting women in the heart on the street, I guess.”
Say Anything: BBQ at our place after the protestor bash!
Weekly Standard: “Guess who’s still coming to dinner.”
Gateway: Reagan vs. Obama. No comfort for Godless commie oppressors vs. hot dogs for Koran-thumping terrorism sponsors.
JWF: “Should be an interesting Fourth of July. The Norks will be lobbing a missile at Obama’s home state of Hawaii while at the same time some morons from the State Department will be breaking bread with Iranian diplomats.”
Topics: America, Iran, Obama, food
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:42 pm on Monday, June 22, 2009
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June 22nd, 2009 at 9:36 pm
And how do we know that the invitees won’t have an explosive personality? They do love the afterlife more than the one they’re in at the moment.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:52 am
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June 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 am
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June 23rd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
[...] I really don’t think Obama gets it. He is, after all, keeping open an invite to Iranian diplomats to come over for hot dogs and beer on the 4th of July. [...]
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Unfreakingbelievable. I honestly don’t think even Jimmeh Cawtuh was this stupid.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
You forgot Angie Harmon!
June 24th, 2009 at 2:27 am
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June 24th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
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June 25th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Jules,
Great idea, but shouldn’t we be prohibiting silicone as well as WMDs? Both “steamy Bay Watch” and “Come Hither” seem to demonstrate enhanced attributes.
As for “hang on,” all I can say is: God Bless Texas!
(OK OK I know it’s really the Stars’n'Bars but I couldn’t resist….)
August 16th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I’ve quoted you and linked to you here: http://consul-at-arms2.blogspot.com/2009/08/re-hot-dog-diplomacy.html