Posted on 06/22/2009 5:16:47 AM PDT by Tolik
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It was George Bush's policy of direct engagement and support of liberty that has led to the people of Iran seeing the measure of freedom now established on both sides of them in Iraq and Afghjanistan...and desiring it for themselves.
Obama cannot possibly go too far in recognizing that, or he absolutely repudiates himself and his entire foreign policy.
...but the fight in Iran is far from over, and is getting brutal.
Young Woman (Neda) shot to death in Terhran. 6/20/2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fVyGo7rZUI
Crowd Hunting Basij, Man shot. 6/20/2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYaL4mA-bSY
URGENT: HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT IRANIAN PROTESTORS RIGHT NOW...ON TWITTER
AMERICANS SUPPORTING IRAN LIBERTY
AMERICANS DON'T NEED OBAMA SPEAKING FOR THEM, WE'RE FREE AND CAN SPEAK FOR OURSELVES
POEM FOR THE ROOFTOPS OF IRAN - INCREDIBLY MOVING
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Again, Why the Diffidence? [Victor Davis Hanson]
Obamathe Manichean?
Of all the puzzling reasons one can adduce both for Barack Obama recent serial apologies abroad, and now his strange silence about human rights abuses from Venezuela to Iran, I think one of the most likely is his Manichean notion of world affairsone also reflected in most of the curricula of our major universities.
The binary oppressor/victim narrative goes something like this: the United States for the last half-centurythrough its embrace of neocolonialism and imperialism, and then again through its birthing of globalized capitalismis at fault for most of the mess outside the West.
We as the bad guys impose, dictate, exploit, ignore, and manipulate the more noble Other to such a degree that he is forced to lash out in understandable, though often dangerous ways.
This is a sort of all-inclusive worldview that in postmodern fashion pits those with power against those without it. And in such a simplistic bipolar world, only a few gifted Western elite intellectuals, of superior intelligence, empathy, and insight, can reach across the divide, understand the Other, and find common ground, by accommodating the West to alternate paradigms of politics, culture, and economic and social lifedifferent of course, albeit not intrinsically in any sense inferior.
Then something messy comes along that doesn't fit the neat paradigm like the purple-finger elections in Iraq, Tiananmen Square, or the most recent democracy demonstrations in Iran that confound that easy calculus. Just when you are singularly prepared, in bold face-to-face diplomacy, to understand the historic grievances of an unshaved, Nehru-coated Ahmadinejad, and to make the necessary apologies and accommodations, thousands of Iranians hit the street in Levis, with English-lettered protest signs, hitting their cell-phones and chanting Western-like protests again indigenous Iranian theocratic fascism.
So how can it be, that anyone would wish to model their politics after Western-style free speech and consensual government, given our culpability for so many global pathologies? The even weirder result that follows is that we become skeptical of the pro-Western Columbian, Israeli, Iraqiand Iranianas somehow less authentic by the very fact of his good will to, and admiration of, us (contrary to everything one has been taught in post-colonial classes).
In that vein, Obama is almost more at ease with virulent anti-Westerners, whose grievances Obama has long studied (and perhaps in large part entertained), and whose estrangement alone offers opportunity for Obamas sophisticated multicultural insight and singular narcissistic magnanimity.
Obama has already been shown to be irrelevant.
Our Hope-and-Change Policy Toward Iran [Victor Davis Hanson]
bflr
Obama wants to rise above his country; but when his country is not held in disrepute (as is true among the Iranian people), he is an actor without a role.
I am ashamed to ask: what is bflr?
Great post and exactly his dilemma of not wanting to give Bush credit for freeing Iraq. That and he is a tyrant.
Pray for America and Iran’s Freedom
Worth reading the full article ping.
Chavez was the first regime to congratulate Ahmadinejad on his victory.
No shame my FRiend.
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As Ann stated, if we don't say and/or do the right thing, the Mullahs will blame us for Svengali behavior anyway and if the revolution suceeds the freedom fighters will remember how the U.S. chickened out. All because of Barack Hussein Obama.
Somewhere in stone a lie is chiseled Iraq made Iran stronger. He doesnt see the footnote: But if Iraqi democracy survives, it fuels emulation in neighboring Iran and does more to undermine the theocracy than all the F-22s in the world. Who knows-if Iranian freedom spreads, some nut might praise Bushs commitment to Middle East freedom in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon, and not Obamas apologetics at Cairo?
got it
thanks!
In listing the reasons Obama chose the later, VDH omitted one that I believe he also thought of but elected to omit.
Obama doesnt share the world view, sympathies and aspiration of the westernized sector of Iran who are risking their lives on the streets of Iran. The sector of the Middle East he is determined to reach out to is the anti-west, anti-american elements - Amedinejad & his supporters, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, etc..
Ill offer some photos that appeared on FR to make my point.
Iranians in Tehran sympathetic to the West/US defy the Mullahs to show support after 9/11.
Obamas Reverend (Wright) delivers his chickens come home to roast sermon after 9/11.
Freedom. What a nightmare for Obama.
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