Why Obama is wrong about Iran
Bookworm on Jun 17 2009 at 2:45 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran
As you know, not only did Obama say he wouldn’t “meddle” in Iran, he said that Mousavi and Ahmadinejad are two peas in a pod, so who cares? James Taranto explains perfectly why Obama is dead wrong:
[W]e think it is very telling that the very first point he made is that there isn’t a rial’s worth of difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi. Let’s stipulate that he’s right: The election was a contest between Evildee and Evildum. We said as much Friday in arguing that an Ahmadinejad victory might be preferable because the reasonable-seeming Mousavi would be more likely to lull the West into complacency. Obama doesn’t need to be lulled; he’s already so heavily sedated that on Friday he was praising the “robust debate” between the candidates he now finds indistinguishable.
Our Friday analysis was predicated on the supposition that one of two outcomes would obtain: Either Mousavi would prevail in an orderly-conducted travesty of a sham election, or Ahmadinejad would. Once the regime decided to make a mockery of its travesty of a sham, it foreclosed both these possibilities. Thus Obama’s analysis made no sense on Tuesday, even though it was substantially identical to ours on Friday.
Speaking very broadly, there are two possible outcomes in Iran now. The regime may succeed in crushing the opposition, enhancing its own power at the expense of whatever pretense of legitimacy it might have had a week ago. Or it may fail to do so and be weakened or overthrown. The free world has every interest in encouraging the latter outcome, and someone ought to bring the leader of the free world up to speed on the events of the past few days.
How can the leader of the free world be so profoundly unintellectual and ignorant? (And yes, that is a rhetorical question. I know we’re talking about Obama here, but it’s still shocking.)
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Well, he did swat a fly.
And David Axelrod later commented the WH was in a quandary whether to name the fly Rush, Cheney, or Carrie Prejean.
Why should we be surprised by any of this? I’m remembering that during the (interminable) campaign, we were told that OBVIOUSLY he could handle the Presidency….after all, just look what an incredibly well-run and successful Presidential Campaign he had conducted, so far.
And THAT was the extent of the experience at leadership that we were offered, BY HIS TEAM…..
So, given that, as well as his background as a Chicago pol, there is absolutely nothing that has “surprised” me so far.
Made me crazy? Yeah. Infuriated me? Oh, yeah! Scared the bejabbers out of me? Indeed. But, no surprise.
(sigh)
Grim mentioned that if you want justice, you had better get out on the streets, as in Iraq, and grab it for yourself. For certainly the government ain’t going to give it to you because you feel entitled to it.
The Declaration of Independence wasn’t made good by UN Resolutions. It was backed by belief. A strong enough faith that accepts death and killing in its stead. Deeds before words.
The Tree of Liberty is watered by the blood of tyrants and patriots.
Now people eventually got tired of this and settled on the rule of law to mediate differences in an objective or non-biased manner. But as we have seen, there is less and less rule of law, and more and more rule of Obama.
Should Obama respond in a manner which would show the US leaning toward the opposition, why, in the future he’d be taken to task for providing support for whatever maniacal loons come to power. Can’t have that, now can we? No, the conciliatory approach is always best. It worked for dJimmuh Carter, didn’t it?
*sigh*
PETA’s upset about him killing the fly.
Those people are nuts.
Well, he did swat a fly.
Only because he thought it was Cheney spying on him. A fly on the wall.
Those people are nuts.
Those people have executed more kittens and puppies than thousands of pet owners put together.