Asia seeing Obama as a kissing cousin to Bush on Iran.
By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Good bye "axis of evil", hello "clenched fists". So much for President Barack Obama making a clean break from the George W Bush administration's addiction with negative, and dangerous, metaphors. Only one month into his presidency, and already the sirens of a brand new martial metaphor of "clenched fists" squarely attached to Iran can be heard.
By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Good bye "axis of evil", hello "clenched fists". So much for President Barack Obama making a clean break from the George W Bush administration's addiction with negative, and dangerous, metaphors. Only one month into his presidency, and already the sirens of a brand new martial metaphor of "clenched fists" squarely attached to Iran can be heard.