Ernie : I fear for the protestors after today's irrational rant by the supreme ayatollah. But you are right, if the ball keeps rolling there is no way to know how far it may go. Obama's dilemma is that if he says too much he looks like a fool and if he says too little he looks like a fool also, just a different kind of fool. Not only saying too much or too little, but saying what is just right. To date,it seems to me that it is too little and, while it still is debatable whether that little has been more-or-less right, there has been, in fact, so little that it almost doesn't matter. It may as well be silence. We have as a nation condemned the Islamic world for silence in the face of mass scale suicide attacks over the years. Now it is the turn of the USA to be silent ? What would that say ? Billy ======================== In a message dated 6/19/2009 12:53:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Hi Billy, On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:28 AM, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) wrote: Even from the narrow perspective of the nuclear issue, the administration's geopolitical calculus is absurd. There is zero chance that any such talks will denuclearize Iran. On Monday, Ahmadinejad declared yet again that the nuclear "file is shut, forever." The only hope for a resolution of the nuclear question is regime change, which (if the successor regime were as moderate as pre-Khomeini Iran) might either stop the program, or make it manageable and nonthreatening. That's our fundamental interest. And our fundamental values demand that America stand with demonstrators opposing a regime that is the antithesis of all we believe. And where is our president? Afraid of "meddling." Afraid to take sides between the head-breaking, women-shackling exporters of terror -- and the people in the street yearning to breathe free. This from a president who fancies himself the restorer of America's moral standing in the world. Much as I would like to believe him, I worry that Krauthammer is reading Western hopes into a Persian squabble. The protestors are clearly ticked off at their leaders, but I don't see any direct line from there to either de-Isalmization or de-nuclearization. Obama is technically correct that there isn't really that much policy difference between two the candidates regarding the issues we care most about. That said, this really is shaping into an extraordinary situation, and revolutions do have a tendency to far exceed their original impulses. I agree with those that this is the biggest thing we've seen since their previous Islamic revolution. Let us pray it leads to a better outcome... -- Ernie P. = _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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