Posted on 06/26/2009 6:00:16 AM PDT by nuconvert
Obama is making the same mistake as other presidents -- the only answer is regime change.
Since Iran's controversial and disputed election, President Obama has been noticeably restrained in his reaction. He has flashed his empathy, saying on Tuesday that he was "appalled and outraged" by the regime's brutality, but he has been equally emphatic about not being perceived as meddling in Iran's internal affairs. Despite increasing political heat, even from Democrats and the usually adulatory U.S. media, Obama persists in his low-key approach, clinging to emotive generalizations.
But it is the president's underlying policies that are wrong, not just his rhetoric. Saying that he does not want the "debate" inside Iran to be about the United States is disingenuous at best. Obama's real objective is to launch negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, in the belief that he can talk Iran out of its 20-year effort to acquire deliverable nuclear weapons. He said it during the 2008 campaign, during his inaugural address and repeatedly thereafter.
Viewed in the light of this near-religious obsession with negotiation, Obama's reticence is entirely understandable: He does not want to jeopardize the chance to sit with the likes of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
In fact, everything we know about the regime indicates that Iran, and the Revolutionary Guard in particular, will never voluntarily give up its nuclear program, so Obama's policy is doomed to failure. (Inevitably, of course, if negotiations start, Obama would change the definition of success to include accepting a "peaceful" Iranian uranium- enrichment program, which means Tehran would retain its "breakout" capability to quickly produce nuclear weapons -- but exploring this further Obama failure has to wait for another day.)
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Bolton/Palin in 2012 !
John Bolton Right On the Mullahs... and right on Kosovo...He’s knows the threat of islam, like no other American in Government now.
Bolton knows whats going on , that’s why they got rid of him FAST.I’m surprised no one has found him dead yet.
He tells it as it is.
Lots of familiar names here, eh? He has absolutely zero credibility on any of this sh!t.
Great find on Bolton. I was totally mistaken on his stance on Kosovo, and am now inclined to be skeptical towards him, like the other creeps that signed the document you linked.
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