Don't forget the Green Revolution in 2009. The long-accepted totalitarian state in Iran had been destabilized by the presence of a functional, stable democracy in Iraq.
Iran might have been a democracy today. It might have been the second domino to fall. The Middle East might have become a sea of self-determining peoples.
But then what happened? The revolutionaries in Iran cried out to Obama for help and he sided with the forces of Islamic tyranny. The Besijji gained the ascendancy. The revolutionaries ended up dead, or raped and dead.
Iraq isn't the first country, the first people that Obama has shamefully betrayed. He betrayed the people of Iran long before he seized the opportunity to betray Iraq.
Put the blame where it actually lies. The Bush doctrine of Freedom could have changed the Middle East.
Would have changed it - except that Obama and the Left did what they do best. They committed every treachery they they could in order to pull down the achievements of the Right. They made America a harmless enemy and a treacherous ally.
What is more: they may have succeeded in attainting the very notion of democracy throughout the Middle East.
“Iraq isn’t the first country, the first people that Obama has shamefully betrayed. He betrayed the people of Iran long before he seized the opportunity to betray Iraq.”
That almost everyone has seemingly forgotten this very prescient fact is a sad statement in and of itself, it is an indictment of our ability to quickly forget and to rationalize anything away.