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The pro-Democracy movement in Iran is the most critical event in the world today. This country is pursuing a full-throated policy of apology towards the greatest evil and greatest threat to peace in the world, while we should be for the people and the movement who could be the greatest move TOWARDS peace. The anti-regime demonstrators in Iran are the most valuable people in the world if you want a better, safer world. Their success would have a spectacular effect on the war in Afghanistan, it would almost end the terror in Iraq, and it would undermine Chavez in Venezuela.
Only people who cannot distinguish between good and evil are still willing to stand on the sidelines and deny that this is a worthy cause for the sake of humanity. Unknown numbers of democracy demonstrators have been arrested, among them human rights advocates and lawyers. And still, for the fourth or fifth time, the Administration fudged yet again on a so-called “deadline” for the Iranian regime to renounce its pursuit of nuclear weapons and rescind other human rights violations. The Presidents reaction to the terrorist attack on Christmas Day and the rush to announce this is an “isolated incident” is just more proof that Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war.
John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, is inching closer towards making a decision to visit Iran.
My guess? Kerry will go and say he can no longer support the Left in his country that are apologists for terrorism and dictatorship, and that military pressure is imminent unless Iran cooperates with the rest of the world.
“He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war,” Cheney says. “He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war.”
Isolationists, run and hide. That you are willing to stand by and watching the suffering and privations of the rest of the world while you sit comfortably in your suburban fiefdoms only speaks volumes about your cowardice.
Man up!
I totally support the liberal democracy activists in Iran, in any way I can. The Obama administration seems to be handling this situation exactly as well as can be done, in my opinion. If we start bush-cheney saber-rattling, it won’t help the liberal democracy movement at all, it will make them look like our puppets, which is how the conservative Mullahs and Revolutionary Guard are dying to paint them. Terry will excoriate ANY policy Obama takes, but all of us from Vern to Terry are rooting for the liberal democracy movement in Iran.
It’s puzzling to refer to those who want more engagement with Iran and its people as “isolationaists.”
When you pasted those Kerry paragraphs into the middle of your piece, you made it sound like Cheney was trashing Kerry instead of Obama.
By the way, do you know that “wherefore” means “why?” For example, Juliet was not trying to figure out where Romeo was, she was griping that he had to be Romeo at all; i.e. a Montague. So I’m not sure if you really meant to ask “Why Iran?” in an Elizabethan sort of way, or not.
That is all. GO GREEN!
I was being Elizabethan yes. Thank you Vern. And I have corrected the piece to show that the Cheney statements were a pull quote to the piece. And Vern, what happens when all the TALK you maintain is involvment amounts to NOTHING. Which it will?
Then your isolationist pals will speak.
Thanks for the poll, Art. It is a good one!
Oh. I guess it’s too late now but I was just gonna add this little snark into my first comment:
John Kerry served in Vietnam? Really? I thought he just signed up briefly so he could shoot himself, get a purple heart bandaid, go back home, stab the troops in the back, and run for office the rest of his life. At least, that’s what your swift boat buddies told me!
And you know, actually, the democracy activists have requested that we not get involved militarily, and they don’t even want sanctions. It’s very rare that a grass roots movement wants its country sanctioned. I believe apartheid South Africa was the only exception. So, what is this great involvement that you wish we’d commence, in your greater wisdom than the heroic folks that are over there risking their necks?
By the way I voted yes on Art’s poll, just because I support revolution in Iran, but I still don’t know what more Obama could do right now. The way polls are phrased around here, it’s hard to really find an answer you can honestly pick; but I guess that’s intended humor or something.
“Isolationists, run and hide. That you are willing to stand by and watching the suffering and privations of the rest of the world while you sit comfortably in your suburban fiefdoms only speaks volumes about your cowardice.”
What would you have said if Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez sent aid to those in our inner cities during civil disorders? The suffering and privations of those in places such as south central Los Angeles, Detroit and Baltimore are well documented. Would you be okay if enemies of our government gave aid and comfort to those people?
Perhaps before we intercede on behalf of those outside of our borders we should clean up our own house.
Hi Sean! (waving from a mountain-top)
This morning:
U.S. Prepares Targeted Sanctions Against Iran
The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration is preparing new sanctions against the Iranian government, with the goal of carefully targeting discrete sections of the government. “We have never been attracted to the idea of trying to get the whole world to cordon off their economy,” said an anonymous senior U.S. official. “We have to be deft at this, because it matters how the Iranian people interpret their isolation — whether they fault the regime or are fooled into thinking we are to blame.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/29/AR2009122903415.html
Waiting with bated breath for Terry to find fault with this, in an Elizabethan way.
Hey Terry! (waving from the valley)
Iran is no threat to us they just wave a big stick. This is going to be the next war because war is money in the bank and our economy needs it. Their trying to justify it just like the did in Iraq but at the end of the day they did nothing wrong to us. Who are we to tell them what they can or can not do. This will just create more terrorism in the long run many innocent people will die. These are brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. They will want vengance on us and they will not care why we were there but we will be blamed for the murders of innocent people. I am a Republican and I do not support this propaganda war and I hope many others will wake up to the truth.
If they want revolution let them plot their revolution as the American people did for our FREEDOM. F**K being the police man of the world we must defend our freedom and our people.