Comments on: Staying Quiet on Iran Paid Off (Not)!

By: Harrison

Harrison — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:06:17 +0000

You operate under the assumption that the Iranian regime had their peoples’ best interests at heart but, because of outside “interference” they suddenly decided to jail dissidents, shoot protesters, and clamp down on the media.

Were Iran not an oppressive regime to begin with there would have been no need for condemnation.

By: Alpha

Alpha — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:21:50 +0000

To claim “Saying nothing did not work” is to be very disingenuous verging on lies. It was Obama SAYING something that boosted Ahmadinejad and shut up the opposition. What other reaction did you expect from the people of Iran after Obama interfered with the nicely growing unrest by opining about the crackdown on the protesters? US, the common enemy, shifted the balance of power in Iran by giving Ahmadinejad a boost.

Obama should have kept his mouth shut and denied Ahmadinejad the opportunity to drag the US into the debate. If he had just kept his pie-hole shut, the opposition would have not had to take the backseat against Iran’s common enemy and who knows what would have happened.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:48:00 +0000

Thus far the only “anger” I’ve seen Obama show is the few times reporters have tried to get him to answer questions not covered by the teleprompter.

By: Windroot

Windroot — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:22:57 +0000

Lika anyone cares what that little twerp Ahmadinejad thinks. I will give you this much. I believe the correct initial response of playing it cool was correct. That doesn’t mean that at some point we can’t ratchet up the rhetoric a bit. Certainly we ought to slap that little nut Ahmadinejad down. Obama does need to find some point when he lets some genuine anger show. You need teeth and you need to use them every once in a while.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:31:55 +0000

There is no way to know what would have happened had he acted differently however, that being said, the excuse that saying more at an earlier time would have produced harsh criticism from Iran is false because it happened anyway and staying silent does not help the protesters. Obama also said he would use the moral authority of the U.S. to advocate change… I’d say the murder of demonstrators and the jailing of dissidents runs counter to the values of the American in which I live.