Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Keeping Cool on Iran


Arizona Sen. John McNasty, proponent of the thoughtful "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" policy, apparently has issues with President Obama's careful statements about the turmoil in Iran following Mahmoud Ahmadiddledoo's likely theft of the election. McNasty thinks that Obama should raise the volume and insert himself in Iranian politics. McNasty's approach, of course, would be used by Ahmadiddledoo's thugs to claim that the opposition forces were merely lapdogs for America, and would provoke an even more brutal crackdown and rationale for supression of the opposition.

It's good to see that one Repub elder statesman disagrees: long-time foreign relations expert Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar said that he thought that the President had just the right tone. One more reason that we're lucky that we didn't end up electing an angry, hair-trigger bomber for President last November.

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