Iran and Obama: Be Thankful for Small--Very Small--Favors

Let us be honest here. It could have been/could be WORSE. Yes, I know that the President of FRANCE (Sarkozy) has shown more courage in calling Iran to account (at least verbally) than President Obama. FRANCE. The country we had to save THREE TIMES (counting the Cold War). How could be have sunk this low?


But it still could have been worse. President Obama MIGHT (and still might--the man is a piece of work) have CONGRATULATED Ahmadinejad for his massive, impressive victory in the Iran "election". Further, he might meet with Ahmadinejad, echange compliments, and accept, with apparent pleasure and approval, an anti-American book. That is what Obama did with Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who also RIGGED his election and silenced the opposittion. In fact, those who suggest that Iran might "pay a price" for exposing its (always obvious) oppression to the world, need to consider that Hugo Chavez paid NO "price". It took Ronald Regan to truly make the Soviet Union "pay a price" for its repression, and Reagan thereby WON the Cold War.


Yes we can take comfor that President Sarkozy was probably only speaking WORDS--if more courageous ones than our President. I don't think France intends to DO anything--France not thaving changed THAT much.. Unfortunately, we may have changed that much (in the wrong direction--North Korea anyone, or a nuclear Iran?).


Now you may, correctly, gather that I don't think the French President's WORDS are going to do much. Does that mean Obama is "right" to say NOTHING in serious criticism of Iran? Nope. President Obama is disastrously WRONG.


That is because he is sending exactly the wrong message to Iran. He is telling Iran that Iran has a blank check, and that we do not intend to take any serious action to stop Iran from developing atomic weapons, or from almost anything else Iran may want to do. Sinde Obama HAS criticized ISRAEL, the message being sent to Iran is even worse. It might be construed as giving Iran a blank check with ISRAEL--the worst of all possible worlds, even it is a misconception. (I am actually not sure how much of a misconceptio it is.)


P.S. Note thow the mainstream media was again proved WRONG, and this blog again proved RIGHT. I am talking aobut the blog entry that ridiculed the mainstream media for the extravagant OVER-PRAISE of Obama's Mideast speech. Now I am somewhat ashamed to claim credit for this one, when it was so obvious a child of six could have said the same thing. Yep. our mainstream media is LESS intelligent than most chidren of six years old (who have not formed an ambition to be mainstream "journalists). I remind you how the mainstream media said that Obama's Mideast speech was going to CHANGE THE WORLD--that it marked one of those TURNING POINTS of history Wrong. More significantly, it has been PROVEN wrong a month or so after the speech was given. I ask you. Is there ANY evidence that Obama's speech made ANY difference anywhere, other than to make North Korea and Iran bolder (while making Israel nervous)? I don't care wheteher you liked parts of the speech or not. It is objectively true that the speech did NOT "change the world". It has already vanished into the dustbin of history without a ripple--except for whatever encouragement the speech gave our enemies (in combinatioin with the general lack of either worlds OR actions by the Obama Administration).