Batch wrote on Jun 22nd, 2009 at 10:56pm:[size=18]Come On Monty... There's plenty of time to push the liberal agenda and playing the race card, but this isn't it.
Except I wasn't the first to turn this into a partisan issue or use it as an excuse to criticize America ... re-read the comments above.
Michael - apologies if I mis-characterized your comments - Callico's statement was openly anti-American, and he wove it in with yours (although your meaning clearly may have been different than his interpretation).
Quote:you reference to history is interesting, but you refer to a communist country....UdSSR....
and we in the west are free... we need to support any one seeking freedom
we need to support any quest for democracy.....
My point was - a movement within a country struggling for freedom (be it civil rights for minorities or free and fair elections) does itself no good by tying itself to a foreign government that is adversarial to the country they live in.
Quote:Dropping a crab in the holy water or a turd in the punch bowl when Iranian people are being killed because they want democracy only shows your disregard for the seriousness of the situation and that you're trying a cheap liberal tactic to divert attention away from the fact your chosen one's gut reaction was to side with the cleric's in honorific terms rather than the people of Iran.
The President of the United States is not siding with the Iranian regime's theft of the election ... I realize that your flowery metaphors are intended to undermine Obama and the US (not the Iranian protests) ... but if enough people keep yelling that the US doesn't support the Iranian reformers, people around the world might start believing that.
Quote:It is stunning to me that, with an event of such potential importance as the Iranian election, critics who know nothing about what's going on in Tehran are so quick to criticize President Obama for being insufficiently vocal in his support for the protesters.
That kind of critique seems sentimental and self-indulgent.
Sure, it might make us feel good. But would it have helped the marchers?
Americans like to think that everybody loves us. But if we have forgotten, the Iranians have not: Iran is the nation where the US of A overthrew the last real democratic government and installed a despotic shah, and where generations of Iranians have suffered since.
Do we see any protesters carrying American flags? Or building statues of Lady Liberty?
Obama needs to do what will help. And vocal cheerleading may not be it.
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