The 24 hour news cycle sometimes blinds us to the larger picture that emerges over weeks and months of individual events. Obama made his opening chess move to the Islamic world in June of this year with an historic speech aimed at reconciliation and improved understanding between East and West. The Green Revolution in Iran was an immediate byproduct of that effort. Now, leading up to a critical set of meetings this week in Geneva with Ahmadinejad, the master chess player has orchestrated a series of moves that will likely lead to either complete Iranian capitulation on nukes, or their complete and total isolation from the world community.
Henry Kissinger, of all people, compared Obama to a chess playerhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
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