Putting economic pressure on Iran will not cause its leadership to reverse course, but it can convince the majority of lower class Iranians that the regime is more concerned about its own power than it is about the average Iranian's welfare.
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There is a big difference between fine-tuning existing DADT policy to see that fewer gay discharges occur, and declaring that open homosexuality is acceptable within the ranks. If the Khomeinists are thrown out, any Iranian government will be an improvement, and the need to exercise the military option will be obviated.
It's time that President Obama stop appeasing the clerics and the terror-sponsors of Tehran and support those that fight for freedom and the dignity of the individual. The blatant incompetence and callous indifference of the Obama administration is not creating nearly the stir that was generated by the network anchors following Katrina. Copenhagen might mark the point in history where China supplanted the United States as the world's greatest power. Dialogue and accommodation with messianic, apocalyptic Islamic regimes like Iran is not only pointless, but threatens the stability of the international order. Even as the UN's nuclear watchdog agency and Israeli intelligence have acknowledged that the Iranian mullahs are on the nuclear threshold and have perfected long-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the Obama [...] According to a Stanford University School of Medicine study, 1.2 million people (mostly in Africa) are alive who would have otherwise not been as a direct result of The President's Emergency Relief Plan for AIDS Relief. Obama's quandary is that he is a liberal Democrat who opposes most military engagements. But unlike Vietnam, the war appears to be winnable. Replacing a strong nuclear and conventional defense with cheap talk of the goodness of man; not making the economy strong again with sensible policies; Obama has set the stage for unintended consequences that can spell disaster for national and global tranquility. The report of the Goldstone Fact-Finding Mission has serious defects that need to be corrected before it can be treated seriously by the public or the UN Human Rights Commission. Aggressors exploit pacifists. Rockets and reputations. Freedom can still have a price. Is Godot coming? The price of popularity. "We are all migrants" and its implications. Integration by government policy: who is adjusting and to what? It is not the responsibility of America to police the world or provide for the security of any nation other than our own. Like Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter has always been embarrassed by a vibrant and strong America. President Obama appears to be oblivious to the long history of Iranian aggression as he pursues a strategy of "soft power" through apologies to the Muslim Middle East and direct negotiations with Iran. Long ago, the British learned that Afghanistan is a place where empires go to die. If the United States reneges on its promise to protect 3,500 Iranian exiles in Iraq, why should the State of Israel trust that the United States will fulfill promises to protect the Jewish State? Adopting the more restrained foreign policy of a republic, instead of the current expansive posture of an empire, would return America to the fine tradition of the nation's founders. President Obama's conduct toward the unrest in Iran is in accord with the classical conservative tradition. Like Hugo Chavez, Barack Obama seems to dislike the idea of a military upholding its nation's constitution and ousting a would-be tyrant. When President Obama said it was not for the United States to be seen as meddling in Iran's "elections" he was acting out of character. History will decide whether President Obama has chosen the right course of action, but we know he has already made major efforts to reach out to the "Supreme Leader" and his mullah cronies. Perhaps Barack Obama should stop apologizing and say something about the situation in Iran. Outside of the War in Iraq, there is no starker difference between former President Bush and President Obama than when it comes to Iran. Although Obama wants to negotiate with Iran, he still shares Bush's unrealistic concept of where he wants Iran to go. |
 
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