So, Obama makes conciliatory gestures towards Iran, tells the oil-rich nation they have a legitimate right to nuclear power, and calls for engagement. Iran responds by rigging an election, violently suppressing protests, and arresting the man who actually won the election.
Are we learning yet?
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Obama called the Iran election results “exciting.”
I suppose it is not possible for me to say that the Iranian election was rigged. It’s a bad deal either way. If rigged, then the whole thing was a sham perhaps designed to locate the Mullah’s worst potential threats to power. If not rigged then Iran is demonstrating solidarity with a regime that pursued nuclear weapons at the same time as publicly calling for the extermination of the Jewish race. Neither option sounds good to me.
A man could go hoarse, or develop carpal tunnel syndrome shouting about, or blogging about, the laughable results of Obama’s style of foreign policy when compared to his predecessor’s. But it would do no good either way because the kool-aid has been drunk, and those who have invested their entire self-respect and, in some cases, self-worth, in calling this man a “messiah” aren’t going to let anything as trivial as facts get in the way.
So forget about Russia re-building a soviet union. Forget about North Korea rattling nuclear sabres. Forget about Iran tooling up for Armageddon. Forget about insulting and alienating our longest and best allies. Forget about going overseas and insulting the history and people of this nation.
None. Of. It. Matters.
He’s the one. Get it? Got it? Good. Now, go back to watching Lost or whatever it is we Americans do with our time to improve our minds.
I really cannot bring myself to really care about what’s happening in Iran. I just can’t.
What? If Ahmadinejad had stepped down does anyone seriously think Iran would suddenly become a republican-loving bastion of hope and peace in the Middle East? That the majority of the population would suddenly come together and say, “You know what? America. She ain’t half bad. Israel too!”
So, honestly, I don’t care. And if what Dean says is true, that the president really doesn’t lead the nation, that he has no real power, instead the Mullah’s do, then it doesn’t really matter who got elected, does it?
I think part of my frustration is with my roommate who is genuinely shocked and concerned. I told him, “I’m not surprised.” Nothing that backwards hole of a nation does surprises me. I am sick and tired of feeling like I’m suppose to give a rip about people who’d kill me with nary a hesitation. Of a people that chant “Death to Israel! Death to America!” and cheered when the Twin Towers came down.
I’ll start caring about their welfare just as soon as I get an inkling they care about mine.
There are are some very kind, compassionate Irani (persian) ppls on the planet.
Some even live in Iran.
I’m sure there are. Do you see me lifting a weapon against them?
And for every kind, compassionate Iranian how many bloodthirsty zealots are there? 10:1? 100:1? 1000:1?
I’m more concerned about the Iranians that want to see America and Israel replaced with Islamic theocracies. Failing that, wiped off the map (if you even acknowledge they’re actually on the map, in the case of Israel).
The nation of Iran is a hair from becoming a nuclear power.
It’s terrible but the sad truth is that in war nice people sometimes die.
These were your words:
“I really cannot bring myself to really care about what’s happening in Iran. I just can’t.”
And from that statement of indifference you somehow inferred I want each and everyone of them to suffer bodily harm or something?
Since you seem fond of quoting me, let me quote myself:
“Do you see me lifting a weapon against them?”
Yet, if the majority of the irani voters did in fact render a non-violent response by voting for a new prime-minister, for change and for new government then maybe their voices need to be heard by the mullahs and company.
Color me cynical but even our so-called friends in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, you know, the more “moderate” Middle Eastern nations, wouldn’t shed a tear at our or Israel’s passing.
And I’m not expecting Iran to be as “friendly” as they even with this election.
Baby steps? Maybe. But I don’t care to test my luck. Abandon the nuclear ambitions and maybe I’ll come around.
So, we’ll see what happens. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
This isn’t just the “education of Barack Obama.”
The Left has for years tried to minimize and marginalize US foreign policy, on the grounds that we are simply too arrogant and too eager to push our own values on other countries. Obama stated EXACTLY that in his latest apologia manifesto in Cairo. The right has been saying for years that the rest of the world should appreciate what the US has done to maintain some semblance of order in a dangerous world.
Well, both sides are now getting a preview of what the world looks like post Pax America. Of course it will take some massive catastrophe to make the Left see anything resembling reality, but here on the right I’m hearing a whole lot of “I told you so” already, and this has only just started.
What we are seeing in Iran, North Korea, Russia, China and more or less across the world is a world that has suddenly realized that the U.S.A. is NO LONGER the world’s police force and garbage collector.
Obama and his ideological peers think that’s a good thing. Conservatives like me have griped for years about how the world doesn’t realize what the US has done for them.
We’re about to find out who’s right.
And the lesson is not likely to be pretty.
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