Okay, I have had it with the attacks on President Obama on this Iran thing.Outraged Americans, specifically Republicans in Congress, are livid over the fact that Obama is not doing more to help the Iranian people cast aside the yoke of a repressive regime.
Two words for these empty headed, have no idea of geo-political history morons…
Blow Me!!
McCain (R-AZ): “Obama should be stronger!!” Lindsey Graham (R-SC): “He is timid and passive!!” And the best:
Mike Coffman (R-CO): (and I paraphrase…but not much) “Duhhhh, I dunno, but the President should do something; it will help our country.”
For these walking, talking, play to the Neo-Con and AIPAC crowd, four more words…
Shut the Fuck Up!!
Maybe not so much Coffman, who strikes me as a complete and utter bonehead…
But the likes of McCain and Graham are lying through their teeth if they think Obama is not striking the correct chord on this issue…well, unless they’ve lost their minds.
The worst thing that America could do right now, is say that we will vociferously support this leaderless band of protestors.
The United States cannot, at this point, interject itself into a nascent revolution that dwells within a country that has a less than a happy face history with our nation.
Lessee…Iran had a freely elected government in 1953 and then we initiated a coup that toppled it and replaced that government with the ever-loving, man-of-his-people, Shah of Iran.We funded his brutal SAVAK goon squad, who mercilessly quelled dissent among the Iranian population as he fed us oil and regional camaraderie through the term of several America Presidents, until in ’79, he was overthrown by the Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution.
And then, to add insult to injury, we supplied Saddam Hussein and Iraq during the Iran/Iraq War!!
Yeah, Iranians just love it when America gets involved in their politics. Our backing of any reformer who would step forward in Iran right now, would be his kiss of death.
Many Iranians certainly want more freedoms, as they should have, but they do not want to necessarily rid themselves of all theocracy, and especially rid themselves of it at the hands of the once-again intruding Americans.
In all likelihood, the Iranians calling for reforms are more than happy placing their future, not in the hands of a U.S. style of democracy, but in the hands of a man named, Akbar Rasfanjani…a powerful, more pragmatic cleric, but a cleric, nonetheless.
Are we going to back him publicly and give him the kiss of death as well? Huh? Are we McCain? Are we Graham?
Save your partisanship for other issues and think about the future of the world with a free and nuke free Iran, not about scoring points by feeding your right wing constituency the red meat of another military expedition.
It’s time to grow up and realize something important. The world does not always revolve around the United States and what we want.
Sometimes, we are in orbit with and around what is best for other nations and the world.Obama recognizes that fact, so in this case he isn't acting like, as some mockingly call him, The Messiah; President Obama is acting more like Copernicus.
Cheers!!
