Posted by David Bernstein:
Obama on the Iranian Election:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_06_14-2009_06_20.shtml#1245142397
As Jim relates below:
My understanding is, is that the Iranian government says that they
are going to look into irregularities that have taken place. We
weren�t on the ground, we did not have observers there, we did not
have international observers on hand, so I can't state definitively
one way or another what happened with respect to the election.
But what I can say is that there appears to be a sense on the part
of people who were so hopeful and so engaged and so committed to
democracy who now feel betrayed. And I think it's important that,
moving forward, whatever investigations take place are done in a
way that is not resulting in bloodshed and
is not resulting in people being stifled in expressing their views
.
When I got to the language quoted above, especially when Obama seems
to have confidence that the Iranian government is really looking into
irregularities, and points out our lack of international observers, I
swear I thought Jim was going to reveal at the end that this was an
exceedingly clever parody of President Obama. Sadly, no.
The special irony is the widespread reports that the Obama
Administration would like to bring down Netanyahu's government in
Israel. I suppose we can't expect Obama to say "that we in the United
States do not want to make any decisions for the [Israelis], but we do
believe that the [Israeli] people and their voices should be heard and
respected."
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