hypocritexposer
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This is quite a long article, I won't post it all.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/special-preview--the-abandonment-of-democracy-15185
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/special-preview--the-abandonment-of-democracy-15185
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/special-preview--the-abandonment-of-democracy-15185
Joshua Muravchik
Iranian exiles in the U.S. are receiving calls from back home asking why President Obama has “given Khamenei the green light” to crack down on the election protestors. To conspiracy-minded Middle Easterners, that is the obvious meaning of Obama’s equivocal response to the Iranian nation’s sudden and unexpected reach for freedom. How to explain that this interpretation is implausible? That the more likely reason for Obama’s behavior is that he is imprisoned in the ideology of loving your enemies and hating George W. Bush?
Whatever the reason, Obama's failure may destroy his presidency. His betrayal of democracy and human rights through a series of pronouncements and small actions during his first months in office had been correctable until now. But the thousand daily decisions that usually make up policy are eclipsed by big-bang moments such as we are now witnessing. Failure to use the bully pulpit to give the Iranian people as much support as possible is morally reprehensible and a strategical blunder for which he will not be forgiven.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/special-preview--the-abandonment-of-democracy-15185