Batons and fists
In Tuesday's New York Post, Ralph Peters attacks President Obama because Iran's entrenched interests read Obama's meant-to-be-conciliatory remarks as a confession of weakness, a signal that the United States is at the end of its strategic rope.But here's the money quote:
The result was that the mullahs and state corporatists no longer saw a need to play pretend. Bush worried them. Obama doesn't. They judged, correctly, that Washington wouldn't so much as issue a tough-minded statement in response to this mockery of an election. And they were right.
For its part, the administration appears stunned, still unable to believe that its self-abasement toward the Middle East didn't inaugurate the Age of Aquarius.
Every Basij (regime-thug) baton cracking a demonstrator's skull in Tehran is a -- distinctly clenched -- fist shoved in Obama's face.Indeed it is. Read the whole thing.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:34 AM
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Obama seems to think that he hasn't tried hard enough to convince the mullahs to agree to a rapprochement with America. Their answer has been to crush Iranians who want freedom.
Hopenchange, any one?
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