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I get sort of a kick out of the Obama administration's contortions to avoid looking too much like George Bush. For instance, even after Obama decided to say something disparaging about the Iranian regime with which he hopes to "negotiate in good faith" he studiously avoided any implication that the demonstrations in Iran might conceivably be about, well... freedom. No, they had to be about "justice" because "freedom" is a word that George Bush used.
And now they're in some sort of fundamental existential twit about what policy they might possibly pursue regarding Iran if the Iranian theocracy isn't inclined to concede on the Nuke issue. It's just so intractable. Like, the success of the protest movement in Iran would have been of no possible benefit, or as though there's some other way out of the dilemma.
Like, how foolish do you have to be not to see that either fate or nature's God, or just plain dumb luck, is giving us one helluvan opportunity to resolve the otherwise irresolvable?
There has never been any other coherent policy on the Middle East than the promotion of liberal democracy and opposition to tyranny, whether you call it "neoconservatism" or just plain old American pragmatism. But you know, maybe if we're just a little more obsequious toward the U.N.?
All of which reminds me of a story Pat Moynihan used to tell about his daughter, after she first saw a cobra in the zoo. She noticed that the cobra was flicking its tongue and staring intently at her, which caused her to remark: "Daddy, the snake likes me!" It's just so wonderful to be popular.
Modified by Juan Carlo Finesseti at Sun, Jun 28, 2009, 19:57:50
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