Friday, June 19, 2009

Appearance of meddling

You need to read Obama's statements on Iran carefully. There is one particular statement in which he said that the US (for historical reasons) can't "appear to be meddling". The statement does not say that the US is not meddling, but that it does not want to appear to be meddling. Similarly, the US in 1953 meddled but it did not appear to be meddling.