By Richard Baehr,The American thinker
Obama would rather appease our enemies
One might think that Barack Obama’s obsession with Jewish settlements in the West Bank would wane a bit,given the events in Iran. But to think this would be wrong.
The President has applauded the vigorous election debate in Iran (the one between protestors and those who arrest and shoot them?),and ridiculed the cause of the protestors by arguing that Ahmadinejad and Mousavi are really not too far apart in their views. If that is the case,the Administration is in a sense arguing that the protestors need not be on the street,since if the choice were tweedledee and tweedledum,who cares whom the ruling mullahs select as the winner?
While many European leaders have been using very tough language to criticize the Iranian regime for its handling of the election and its aftermath,and standing with the demonstrators,Barack Obama alone seems to be siding with the regime. Clearly,Obama does not see regime change in Iran as a positive development,and seems fearful of offending the mullahs and Ahmadinejad.
This go-soft-with-killers approach is causing unusual verbal gymnastics by Obama acolytes in the left wing press (e.g. the Nation,the Guardian) who are desperate to find a way to spin the story so that Obama’s reticence in challenging the crackdown and the election theft is in fact seen as a calculated and nuanced approach to the Iranian situation.