Comments on: Iranians Protest and are Murdered, Nobel Winner Obama is Silent

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:47:41 +0000

The President has finally come around a bit on offering rhetorical support for protesters. And I did not use air quotes around rhetorical for a reason. The psychological value of words cannot be underestimated. Reagan’s rhetorical support for the freedom fighters of the Warsaw Pact nations and Russia itself was fuel for the fire. Opposition leaders like Sharansky and Welesa have gone to great lengths in acknowleging the support given by Reagan and Pope John Paul II.

That this President is naive enough to think that standing for Iran’s freedom fighters from the get-go might endanger potential nuclear negotiation talks with that lunatic over there, is troubling. How’s all that working out, anyway?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:55:33 +0000

This, probably more than all the other issues really angers me. The people of Iran are against the Mullahs and Obama can’t even lend a few words of support.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:45:12 +0000

Well said. Politics abhors a vacuum.

By: Burro

Burro — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:46:44 +0000

@ Cherlock.

The cowboy has left the building and created a vacuum, that has been filled by our great friend and ally, Vladimir Putin. If you think Obama is being so heroic by staying out of this, you reveal the assumption that you have that no one else will fill this vacuum. You are wrong.
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By: burro

burro — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:44:07 +0000

I hope Obama has some time during his vacation to hit up a Hallmark store. Nowruz is just around the corner. .-= burro´s last blog ..Easy, Trigger: How to Kill the National Debt =-.