Matt Steinglass found Obama's video chat somewhat patronizing (as did I, but I don't know how Iranians will take it) while Ezra gushes:
There
are times when it's hard to believe that this is how my country acts
now. That somewhere in government, some young bureaucrat had the idea
that the President should publicly honor the Iranian New Year, and that
bureaucrat felt that her superiors would also think this a good idea,
and, indeed, the thought went all the way to the President, who agreed
that a display of engagement and goodwill was consonant with our
national values and foreign policy goals. It is hard to believe that
five years after we were ordering "freedom fries" in the congressional
cafeteria, we're posting Persian translations at Whitehouse.gov.
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