Posted on 10/18/2022 1:19:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As the world watches and reacts to anti-regime protests in Iran that entered a second month at the weekend, former President Barack Obama conceded that, in hindsight, decision-making in his White House on how to respond to an earlier protest movement was wrong.
In an interview on a podcast hosted by former Obama White House staffers, he recalled that in the internal debate on how to react to the 2009 “Green Movement” protests some argued that vocal support from the U.S. would undermine the protestors.
“You guys will recall there was a big debate inside the White House about whether I should publicly affirm what was going on with the Green Movement,” Obama told the “Pod Save America” hosts in the episode aired on Saturday. “Because a lot of the activists were being accused of being tools of the West and there was some thought that we were somehow gonna be undermining their street cred in Iran if I supported what they were doing.”
“And in retrospect, I think that was a mistake.”
Obama told the podcast hosts — former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor, former advisor for strategy and communication Dan Pfeiffer, and former speechwriters Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett — that the U.S. should “shine a spotlight” and “express some solidarity” whenever it sees “a flash, a glimmer of hope, of people longing for freedom.” …
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The easiest words he’s ever said I’m sure.
Repeating the same “mistake” all over again. Negotiating with the Iranian government while the people are in massive protests and strikes only emboldens the Ayatollahs. Worse, we are negotiating to give them lots of cash via oil sales and nuclear capability at a time when our current WH is talking recklessly about nuclear war, and while Iran is supplying Russia with armaments.
The Biden administration is so entrenched in its own corruption it is incapable of putting together a coherent foreign (or domestic) policy in favor of American interests.
Should’ve supported it?!
It was a CIA operation!
They never tell the truth, the whole truth.
A democraatic Iran would have cemented his legacy... oh well!
No, it wasn’t a mistake. It was intentional.
No problem Bonzo. You made a lot of mistakes when you were living in the Big White House. What difference does one more make?
Bingo.
The whole 8 years was a disaster.
That’s a start, Jugears. Now do the rest of your terms in office.
One
Big
Ass
Mistake
America!
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