Barack OBadass Would Tell Iran What's Up

POINT He's making sense (Bonus) and sounds tough (Double Bonus)

COUNTERPOINT Looks like Barack is going to try to make strong-arming players in the "Middle East" a big part of his campaign.
This is America, Barack. We don't care about what is going on outside our borders where we don't live or vacation or have foreign direct investment.

Nice ploy - Nice tie. Try something funny next time.

"The Iranians and the Syrians are acting irresponsibly inside Iraq. They perceive that it is a way to leverage or impact or weaken us at a time when they’re worried about United States action in a broader context. I’ve already said, I would meet directly with Iranian leaders. I would meet directly with Syrian leaders. We would engage in a level of aggressive personal diplomacy in which a whole host of issues are on the table. We’re not looking at Iraq, just in isolation. Iran and Syria would start changing their behavior if they started seeing that they had some incentives to do so, but right now the only incentive that exists is our president suggesting that if you do what we tell you, we may not blow you up."

Check out the complete NYT interview transcript