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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
the point, which i incorrectly assumed was obvious and didn't really need to be dumbed down any more than it was... was that he is well known for making highly innapropriate and grossly offensive/insensitive remarks by any standard of diplomacy and statesmenship and has a long history of doing so. knowing that, its kinda irrelevant to debate the semantics of any single remark under the idiotic assumption that he is otherwise a perfectly normal person and brilliant statesman whose behavior falls within any acceptable realm or popular definition of normalcy in international politics.
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He plays to his audience... His audience is not the "west" and in case you haven't noticed, they're "typically" not as civilised as we pretend to be, nor are they as practiced at double speak as the west ... Outlandish statements are what work for his audience...
What I find hillarious though is that for him (and the real leaders of Iran) not being "brilliant" statesmen, they're outplaying the US at every turn... How much of Iraq is pretty much under the influence of Iran??? Didn't Iraq just make deals with China and Iran??? The US (under Bush's leadership) is a joke when it comes to foreign policy which is what the US presidents primary job is supposed to be.