Keeping our enemies closer

In a show of foreign policy ignorance, the Obama administration reportedly plans to invite Iran to a conference on Afghanistan later this month.

The Obama administration reportedly plans to invite Iran to an international conference on Afghanistan later this month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Thursday.

"If we move forward with such a meeting, it is expected that Iran would be invited as a neighbor of Afghanistan," Clinton told reporters in Brussels after meeting NATO foreign ministers, Reuters reports.

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"Our task is to dissuade them, deter them and prevent from acquiring a nuclear weapon," Clinton told Reuters.

Um, ok. So we do that by revealing our strategy for defeating them, and their allies, in Afghanistan? Hope! Change!