Unacceptable accepted, indefensible defended
From President Obama: “I would suggest Mr. Ahmadinejad think carefully about the obligations he owes to his own people. And he might want to consider looking at the families of those who have been beaten or shot or detained.” Most of us are aware of the fact that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has thought carefully about it (for three decades) and then decided both that the Iranian people have no rights to assemble or speak freely and that the Iranian government has a right to order that they be beaten, shot, and detained at will.
So came the next question. Don’t the events of the past few weeks undermine your hopes for meaningful dialogue, and aren’t you just losing precious time? To which Obama responded: “On the Iranian issue, I think that we are still waiting to see how the situation in Iran plays out…We don’t yet know how any potential dialogue will have been affected until we see what’s happened inside of Iran.”
Refusing to be sidetracked, reporters pressed on, and finally the president ’fessed up. He told the world that events in Iran will have no effect whatsoever on his policy to engage in dialogue with Iran.
Now let’s get going yet again with the tired expressions of shock and surprise, and the ongoing refusal to face facts about our dictator-fellating douchebag of a pResident. Meanwhile:
While Obama improves relations with Venezuela, Obama has cut military ties to Honduras, is considering a cut-off of all aid, is doing nothing to stop loan suspensions by international organizations over which the U.S. has substantial influence, and is supporting international efforts to isolate Honduras.
Poor and tiny Honduras faces the full wrath of the United States, United Nations, and much of the rest of the world, while nothing is done about Iran. On Iran, Obama and the world acted with the utmost deference, and there were no efforts by the Obama administration at international action. None.
But Honduras, enforcing its own laws against a renegade wannabe President-for-life, for some reason warrants the full force of the United States government and international community. Honduras gets condemnation from Obama, while Chavez gets hugs and Ahmadinejad gets deference. Wonderful. No, horrible.
Or, as Bayefsky puts it: obscene. The Current Occupant is an affront to decency, an insult to American ideals, and an enemy of liberty. How many atrocious examples must pile up before the ostriches pull their heads out of the sand? To switch to another avian metaphor here: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…it’s a damn duck, alright?
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