53 Responses to Iranian Election a Repudiation of Obama

1. trizzlor says: 51

   Radio Farda and VOA Persia have existed before the Democracy Promotion program – it’s naive to think that is our only effort within Iran. Here‘s a great op-ed from the WSJ with actual ideas on what Obama can do to help the opposition; I pretty much agree with all of them (although calling Moussavi is a risk).

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   June 23, 2009 at 1:58 pm
2. MataHarley says: 52

   Triz:

   Well, not exactly – had this happened in the first few days of the protests the results could have been quite different; this far into it the Ayatollahs statements are having little resonance with the public.

   There ya go with the sewage crystal ball and parallel universe crap again, guy. At the first sign of brutality aimed at the demonstrators was the first opportunity for the world to speak up.

   Yet you continue to tout that had Obama said anything, all this “tragic” stuff would happened on a worse scale, and the US would be blamed.

   I don’t know how to break this to you… or you could read my latest post… but all this tragic stuff DID happen and Obama didn’t speak up. They blamed the US, even when Obama didn’t speak up.

   But then, Obama’s a fool. For as I pointed out in my latest post, Iran *always* blames the US for everything. To believe that Messianic diplomacy and not rendering harsh criticism would break that age old Iranian game for years is truly the height of stupidity. Obama’s for believing it, and your’s for buying into the spin.

   This BS is just a way to try and make Obama’s not look the fool on the world stage. And there are many on both sides of the political aisle playing that game. It still, however, does not make them diplomatically correct. And we know for sure they are not morally correct.

   But then… that’s part of leadership. Something Obama is reluctant to do because of popularity repercussions.

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   June 23, 2009 at 6:31 pm

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