Remember when I said that I wouldn’t put it past the Obama Administration to actually meet Iran’s demand for an apology for our “crimes”? Yeah, well, I’m no more convinced today that President Obama will hold the line. In fact, his Democratic predecessor did apologize to the Islamic Republic back in ’00.

The Clinton Administration tried this tactic. President Clinton confessed in “unprompted” remarks that “Iran … has been the subject of quite a lot of abuse from various Western nations. And I think sometimes it’s quite important to tell people, look, you have a right to be angry at something my country or my culture or others that are generally allied with us today did to you 50 or 60 or 150 years ago.”

Then in 2000, at a state dinner in Washington, Secretary of State Madeline Albright directly apologized for specific past American actions toward Iran, from our role in orchestrating the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq, to our backing of the Shah, to our backing of Iraq in its war with Iran. Albright also highlighted President Clinton’s personal belief that America “must bear its full share of responsibility for the problems that have arisen in U.S.-Iranian relations.”

Allah thinks that this tactic failing in the past makes it less likely that Obama will go down that pathway now. I think my favorite conservative blogger gives the new president too much credit. We’re hearing about the installment of a New New Deal to fix this current recession. The old New Deal extended the Great Depression by seven years. The present administration, or the former one for that matter, hasn’t been opposed to repeating past mistakes.