No, ANandy, what President Obama would have us believe is that if we make a lot of official noise in support of the protesters, then Khamenei and Ahmadinejad will be able to more brazenly assert their priorities under the auspices of nationalistic pride. And what’s more, all the experts agree with him.
tpenna, you nailed it. Besides, people overseas don’t see Obama as weak or naïve at all. Bush (Dubya, that is) was seen as naïve, and rightly so. They see Obama as someone too smart and cool to get suckered in by the Iranian propagandists – or the neocon propagandists, for that matter.
Let their own people take care of their own business. I think that Iran’s leader is irate that his people would have the odassity to protest against him. I’m glad that they are.
Funny how, once again, the fundamentalist religious tyrants on the Middle East and the fundamentalist right-wing in America both want the same thing… Both profit when they can use the other as a boogieman.
And the idea of peace, which is SUPPOSED to be the basis of religion, is terribly threatening to their control.
kreniigh - peace is not always the basis of religion, unless you count Tacitus’ definition: “Where they make a desert, they call it peace.” And that’s true of some people in all the modern “Abrahamic” religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). At some point someone always decides that God should fight for them.
I’m leaving out ancient religions, some of which encouraged fighting and war.
lalas almost 15 years ago
SPOT ON!
Motivemagus almost 15 years ago
Har! I love the way they tried to claim the US was interfering when we oh-so-deliberately weren’t. Obama nailed it.
tpenna almost 15 years ago
No, ANandy, what President Obama would have us believe is that if we make a lot of official noise in support of the protesters, then Khamenei and Ahmadinejad will be able to more brazenly assert their priorities under the auspices of nationalistic pride. And what’s more, all the experts agree with him.
deadheadzan almost 15 years ago
Anderson hits the nail on the head with this cartoon. Every body with real sensibility agree with Obama, including George Will and Peggy Noonan!
cdward almost 15 years ago
The smartest move we can make is to keep our noses out of it. It’s fine to condemn the violence against protesters, but that’s it.
nomad2112 almost 15 years ago
… and we will kill your citizens no mater what the response.
Motivemagus almost 15 years ago
tpenna, you nailed it. Besides, people overseas don’t see Obama as weak or naïve at all. Bush (Dubya, that is) was seen as naïve, and rightly so. They see Obama as someone too smart and cool to get suckered in by the Iranian propagandists – or the neocon propagandists, for that matter.
believecommonsense almost 15 years ago
obama has had near perfect pitch on this issue, IMHO
Michigander almost 15 years ago
Let their own people take care of their own business. I think that Iran’s leader is irate that his people would have the odassity to protest against him. I’m glad that they are.
lalas almost 15 years ago
Toles has a good one. The righties are too busy criticizing Obama to actually criticize the Iranians.
Karl Hiller Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Funny how, once again, the fundamentalist religious tyrants on the Middle East and the fundamentalist right-wing in America both want the same thing… Both profit when they can use the other as a boogieman.
And the idea of peace, which is SUPPOSED to be the basis of religion, is terribly threatening to their control.
Motivemagus almost 15 years ago
kreniigh - peace is not always the basis of religion, unless you count Tacitus’ definition: “Where they make a desert, they call it peace.” And that’s true of some people in all the modern “Abrahamic” religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). At some point someone always decides that God should fight for them. I’m leaving out ancient religions, some of which encouraged fighting and war.