Obama Appears Indifferent to the Iranian Revolution. Sad and Pathetic.
There is a revolution growing in Iran. Obama continues to ignore it. It is a great opportunity to embrace these people that are fighting for freedom in that country but Obama is apparently sitting this one out. Incredibly Obama continues to be mocked in Iran and still he does nothing. It is incredible his lack of will to help a country desperate for our support for freedom. Charles Krauthammer suggests that 2009 will go down as a year of an opportunity squandered.
We lost a year. But it was not just any year. It was a year of spectacularly squandered opportunity. In Iran, it was a year of revolution, beginning with a contested election and culminating this week in huge demonstrations mourning the death of the dissident Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri — and demanding no longer a recount of the stolen election but the overthrow of the clerical dictatorship.
Obama responded by distancing himself from this new birth of freedom. First, scandalous silence. Then, a few grudging words. Then relentless engagement with the murderous regime. With offer after offer, gesture after gesture — to not Iran, but the “Islamic Republic of Iran,” as Obama ever so respectfully called these clerical fascists — the U.S. conferred legitimacy on a regime desperate to regain it.
Our President is a wimp. We should be encouraging and supporting the demonstrators. They are dying for their freedom. Our President is more interested in his golf game in Hawaii apparently.
Imagine if these Iranian protesters are somehow successful. Do you think they are going to have any interest in having relations with our country after we so pathetically ignored their pleas for help?
Why is this important? Krauthammer again gives the answer:
Will this revolution succeed? The odds are long but the reward immense. Its ripple effects would extend from Afghanistan to Iraq (in both conflicts, Iran actively supports insurgents who have long been killing Americans and their allies) to Lebanon and Gaza where Iran’s proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, are arming for war.
One way or the other, Iran will dominate 2010. Either there will be an Israeli attack or Iran will arrive at — or cross — the nuclear threshold. Unless revolution intervenes. Which is why to fail to do everything in our power to support this popular revolt is unforgivable.
The British newspaper The Telegraph writes about Obama’s weakness as well. Great huh?
Embarrassingly for Washington, even many European leaders showed more backbone in condemning the Iranian regime’s brutal suppression of protesters, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton humiliatingly outflanked by her French and German counterparts, who had no qualms about speaking out quickly and firmly against the election result and the actions of the Iranian government.
But lets forget about freedom around the world. We have a massive government health care takeover to spend our time with. This Administration is pathetic and weak. Damn, it’s going to be a long, expensive and scary thee years with these people in charge.
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