What Kissinger said Posted by Ilan Goldenberg

Pretty simple:

Kissinger: "Well, I am in favor of negotiating with Iran. And one utility of negotiation is to put before Iran our vision of a Middle East, of a stable Middle East, and our notion on nuclear proliferation at a high enough level so that they have to study it. And, therefore, I actually have preferred doing it at the secretary of state level so that we -- we know we're dealing with authentic..." Sesno: "Put at a very high level right out of the box?" Kissinger: "Initially, yes. And I always believed that the best way to begin a negotiation is to tell the other side exactly what you have in mind and what you are -- what the outcome is that you're trying to achieve so that they have something that they can react to. Now, the permanent members of the Security Council, plus Japan and Germany, have all said nuclear weapons in Iran are unacceptable. They've never explained what they mean by this. So if we go into a negotiation, we ought to have a clear understanding of what is it we're trying to prevent. What is it going to do if we can't achieve what we're talking about? But I do not believe that we can make conditions for the opening of negotiations. We ought, however, to be very clear about the content of negotiations and work it out with other countries and with our own government." (CNN's "Live Event," 9/20/08)

Comments

[Bo Grimes]

He did not say the President should talk without condition. He said talks should begin at a high level, the Secretary of State level. He's talking about the "opening of talks," not sitting down as a president right off the bat.

Not making conditions for the "opening" of negotiations, not the closing. Presidents close the deal. They do not open them.

The foundational precondition, the unspoken one, is that talks will begin at a lower level.

[MzAmerica]

Did you miss this part of the debate?

"Senator McCain keeps on using this example that suddenly the president would just meet with somebody without doing any preparation, without having low-level talks. Nobody's been talking about that, and Senator McCain knows it. This is a mischaracterization of my position."

And what's your problem with eliminating bureaucracy?

[e.p.]

Henry Kissinger has already denounced Obama's using of his statements as justification as a mischaracterization:

"Senator McCain is right. I would not recommend the next President of the United States engage in talks with Iran at the Presidential level. My views on this issue are entirely compatible with the views of my friend Senator John McCain. We do not agree on everything, but we do agree that any negotiations with Iran must be geared to reality."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/tws_exclusive_kissinger_unhapp.asp

[MzAmerica]

Did he mean ever?

Obama did repeatedly say that before he met with the leaders of foreign countries lower level talks would be orchestrated. Did you just tune him out every time he said that?

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