2012 May 22 |
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http://www.theatlanticright.com/2009/12/28/why-obama-doesnt-support-the-green-revolution/
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This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post, called “Obama’s Shame: Revolution Continues in Iran, Sound of Silence from White House.” When I decided to write that, I wanted to use the opportunity  to explain why President Obamahasn’t condemned the violence committed by the Mad Mullahs in recent months. Because the post was long enough as it was, however, I didn’t quite get to that.

As I stated yesterday, nothing but the sound of silence has come from the White House ever since Iranian lovers of liberty and democracy declared war on the thugs who have oppressed them for the last three decades. This even though the U.S. has historically always been an example and inspiration for such those who love freedom, no matter where they live. Some defend Obama’s silence saying endorsing the Green Revolution will hurt, rather than help it. As I explained yesterday - and as my distinguished co-blogger here atNewsRealblog Peter Collier pointed out earlier today as well - this argumentmakes little sense.

If that’s true, and assuming Obama knows it, why then doesn’t he side with the protestors who are dying in the streets, brutally murdered by, as Peter put it rather well, “the obscene Iranian regime?”

Read the whole thing at David Horowitz’s NewsRealblog.

  1. Posted by Todd
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    Todd "As I stated yesterday, nothing but the sound of silence has come from the White House" ... "We strongly condemn the violent and unjust suppression of civilians in Iran seeking to exercise their universal rights. Hope and history are on the side of those who peacefully seek their universal rights, and so is the United States. Governing through fear and violence is never just, and as President Obama said in Oslo -- it is telling when governments fear the aspirations of their own people more than the power of any other nation." White House spokesperson Mike Hammer. I see Horowitz hasn't become more inquistive or interested in reality since his days as a Trotskyite. Deeply unpleasant to be given a window into his mind.
  2. Posted by Bengt Larsson
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    Bengt Larsson Oh get off it. America currently supports the regime in Saudi Arabia. That one is far more dictatorial than the regime in Iran. It's also Islam's homeland.
  3. Posted by Todd
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    Todd Why doesn't David check up on any other world leaders regarding the green revolution? Why is only Obama a viable suspect for pro-Ahmadinejad tendencies? Seriously, Michael, featuring Horowitz' poorly considered and sophist screeds doesn't look good for the blog.
  4. Posted by Tully
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    Tully I would point out that Hammer is not speaking there as a "White House spokesperson." He's explicitly listed in that release as spokesman for the National Security Council. IOW, the statement by Hammer posted on the White House web site does not say it speaks for the President, and goes out of its way to show that it does not, so it does not. It clearly speaks for the NSC, an advisory body. Statements from the NSC itself carry no real weight or authority, and are completely repudiatable. When Hammer begins a statement with "we" instead of "The President" and is listed as NSC spokemsman rather than as his "other hat" of White House spokesman, the admin is openly signalling that his words are not firm admin policy statements at all. Hammer is employed by the White House, not the State Department. He's down the chain from Gibbs. The farther down the chain a statement is deployed, the less weight it is meant to have in international relations. This protocol is well understood in diplomatic circles. Today's statement is a somewhat different story. In it, Obama openly condemned the violence in Iran ... after putting people to sleep with his words on the airplane bombing attempt. But he also qualified his Iran statement with the phrase "We will continue to bear witness" which translates as "That's ugly, but we're not gonna do anything about it." Between the "bear witness" remarks and the earlier statement from Hammer, the message to Iran and the international community is that only lip service will be paid to the issue at this point. Still, that's much better than the week's spineless and pointed silence of earlier this year. Even if we're not going to actively do anything (like call for new sanctions) at least it's a statement supportive of human rights.
  5. Posted by Doomed
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    Doomed Brengt The Saudis are not threatening to build nukes and use them on people. News flash. Israel just recalled all ambassadors back to their homeland.