CAN'T WAIT TO OPEN IT – AT 7:40 P.M. ET:  The illustrious president of Iran has written a letter to President Obama:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, calling on him to cooperate with the Islamic Republic, CNN reported on Friday citing the Iranian Republic News Agency (IRNA).

No, that's the problem.  He has cooperated, far too much. 

"Obama has only one way to remain in power and be successful," Ahmadinejad reportedly said in a speech earlier this week. "This way is Iran."

Obama has been pushing fellow members of the UN Security Council, particularly Russia and China, to support enacting a tougher package of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.

Washington fears Iran's nuclear program will allow Tehran to develop nuclear weapons. Iran denies any such intention and says it only wants to generate electricity.

Right.  You know, now with the iPad coming out, a country needs so much more juice. 

Ahmadinejad said that it is not Iran that faces isolation from the world but rather the U.S. that finds itself in that situation.

"Once [the U.S. was] at the height of glory," he said. "Now they are collapsing. They have many economic and cultural problems. They have security problems in the world and their influence in Iraq and Afghanistan is vanishing."

The sad fact is that this is the way many countries now see the United States.  Obama, with his outreach/appeasement policies, and his disgraceful behavior toward our closest allies, like Britain, has weakened America, and it's being noticed. 

You can criticize George W. Bush for many things, but the world knew that the gun in his holster was loaded.

April 16, 2010