I've got no problem with the use of secret back channels of communication with any country. I'm concerned more with what these letters contain and what promises Obama is making to Iran. What Obama and his team don't seem to realize is that they are absolutely horrible at negotiating..... anything. Iran will steamroll over Obama and the problem with that is, Iran may eventually get nuclear weapons. I'm not worried much about the strain on Saudi / Israel relations - once Obama is out of office and a new President comes things will reset to a degree. Iran with nukes will make the future very difficult and potentially will start the worlds first nuclear war where everyone will suffer.
I think of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Hitler and Stalin.
>" Seventy-five years ago, on August 23, 1939, the USSR and Nazi Germany became allies through the Stalin-Hitler Pact. Joachim von Ribbentrop signed for Hitler and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed on behalf of Stalin. Molotov said that Hitlerism was “a matter of taste,” and that it was “not only senseless, but criminal” to wage war on Hitler “camouflaged as a fight for democracy.” Though often described as a “non-aggression pact,” the reverse was true.
he month after the Pact, Stalin and Hitler both invaded Poland, starting World War II. The Pact also gave Stalin control of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which he retained after the war, along with other conquests such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary and what became the German Democrat Republic, the regime that made emigration an exciting experience.
While the pact was in effect, Soviet and Nazi intelligence agencies worked together and American Communists did everything in their power to keep the United States from coming to Britain’s aid. During the Pact, the Soviets murdered 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest. That came at the direct order of Stalin, as Russia now acknowledges. Less well known is the reality that Stalin also handed over German Jewish Communists to Hitler’s Gestapo. At the Nuremberg trials after the war, Joachim von Ribbentrop was convicted for signing the Pact while Molotov, who signed for Stalin, sat in the accuser’s chair. So Stalin and his gang got away with it..."<
The Stalin-Hitler Pact Turns 75 | FrontPage Magazine
Breaking:
>" Several media report that Putin, at the meeting of "young historian" in Moscow defended the Hitler-Stalin pact as "not a bad idea". And French and Great Brittan are in responsibility for WW2.
"President Vladimir V. Putin
has revised his opinion of an important piece of Soviet history,
calling the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that Moscow signed with Nazi
Germany to divide up Eastern Europe not so bad. “The Soviet Union signed
a nonaggression treaty with Germany,”
Mr. Putin said during a meeting with historians on Wednesday, according
to a Russian transcript of the meeting that the Kremlin released
Thursday..."<
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