“If we want to avoid making Iran a very nasty country…”

Posted: June 19, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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These word on Morning Joe today are one of the reasons why I have a hard time taking Zbigniew Brzezinski seriously.

The idea that if we even speak in support of the people in Iran that it will prevent us from talking them out of nukes or make them repressive.

Listen, these guys are going to blame all of this on us anyways. These guys aren’t going to become repressive, they already are. We aren’t going to drive them toward a bomb, they are already going there.

Forgetting the morality of it (which clearly says to speak up) and speaking practically, this is our best chance of accomplishing the downfall of the chief sponsor (as Yoda once said there is one other but that’s a post for another day) of terror in the world. It is a chance to do it without a military strike. These guys are very worried, particularly since we have 2 armies right next door.

We need to support these guys, both with public pronouncements and in small ways like the twitter update delay.

President Obama scoffed when his rhetoric was called “just words”, now he is unwilling to even deploy them.

Comments
  1. rscme says:

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It’s an old saying but worth a second look. If the cleric leaders of Iran convince the “reformers” that it’s the West’s doing, the two will no longer be at odds against each other but against the West. It is too volatile right now in Iran and things work slowly there. Give it time and see how things play out before the U.S. reacts strongly in any direction. And I’m a liberal. The Iran situation is not going away any time soon. It took a year, from 1978 to 1979, of rumbling before the last revolt. Everyone should just take a deep breath and let things play out a bit before we get all reactionary.