Posted on 06/16/2009 2:53:33 AM PDT by Zanton
With the fate of 70 million desperate, miserable, and mostly-enslaved Iranians hanging in the balance, now is the time for Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, and others to declare that freedom is an absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable birthright of man. They need to come out unambiguously on the side of the Iranian people and against the Iranian dictators.
These Free World leaders -- if they are leaders, and if they do champion freedom -- should loudly and pointedly make the case that all individuals, everywhere on earth, have an utter and untouchable right to liberty and justice. Individual rights, they should note, are sacred and can never be taken away by any state. Any oddball fanatics, medieval theocrats, and reclusive dictators who say otherwise are nothing more than criminals, tyrants, traitors, and loathsome depraved usurpers who richly deserve to be overthrown and executed.
Even if America, Britain, France, and Germany today manifestly refuse to lift a military finger -- and take out the highly-vulnerable, hated, and evil Iranian autocrats -- at the very least these nations and their leaders should openly and vigorously declare their solidarity with the hideously suffering Iranian people. And they should demand that the monsters in charge of Iran at least adhere to the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This is a minimal statement of the rights of man, and should not be hard to follow. It's also a statement of principles to which the Iranian dictatorship is morally and legally bound. If nothing else, the heads of state of the relatively liberal Western nations need to break their current cowardly and depraved silence, and emphatically make clear their support -- at least verbally and morally -- for today's brave and heroic Iranian freedom-fighters.
Government shrank under Clinton, while Western liberalism surged worldwide. Under Bush it was the opposite.
Well he may be your President, but I don’t accept him as such. The Pendulum will swing again.
Yeah, he sure kissed Saddam Hussein's Ass! Idiot!
okay — ALMOST every one!
Well I agree with you ,but the fact is we are stuck with him.
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