WillCollier.com: Welcome Back, Carter
Rather than offering any crumbs of support to the Iranians who are literally putting their lives on the line for their own freedom, Barack Obama could only manage “deep concerns.” In Obamaland, it’s not as important to offer even moral support to people trying to shake off the yoke of a barbaric dictatorship as it is to not appear to be “meddling.”
This all sounds quite familiar, and everyone over 30 has seen it before. Did somebody replace the “community activist” with a self-righteous peanut farmer while we weren’t looking?
This is actually somewhat of a misreading of history. The Carter administration put active pressure on the Shah of Iran for reform, pressure that helped to eventually drive him from office.
This is a far cry from the reaction of the Hussein Obama administration, which is meekly acquiescing to Iran’s lunatic religious tyranny in every way it can.
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Related Reading. Freespace: Cato’s foreign policy: don’t speak up for freedom’s defenders. He’s a Cato adjunct scholar.
Bill, that’s a fair criticism of the wording of the post in question; what I probably should have added was this: like Carter, Obama seems fixated on appeasing implacable enemies of the US and freedom in general, while at the same time ignoring (at best) people whom we ought to at the very least have a rooting interest in assisting.
I love it when Lefties bring up Carter as “caring about human rights” in his foreign policy. The hell he did; Jimmy never gave a tinker’s damn about the human rights of anybody living under a dictatorship that was (or is) unfriendly to the US. The guy complemented Ceauşescu!
My take is that Obama lost this round because he didn’t have the balls to tell the Iranian people that any country with a “Supreme Leader” will never have a fair or free election. The Iranians are bitching because they wanted a different pupppet than the one they got. And Obama can’t even work up the nerve to point that out.