Posted on 06/14/2009 6:52:58 PM PDT by VRWCTexan
On June 4, President Barack Obama declared, "I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world." Awed by Obama's rhetoric, many commentators - blogger Juan Cole and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann, for example - suggested that an "Obama Effect" could usher in a new era of hope and change in the Middle East, and a pro-American outcome in Lebanese elections earlier this month seemed to cooperate with the theory.
After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection in Iran, we can now say with confidence: There is an Obama Effect, but it has less to do with reform and more to do with American arrogance and the triumph of advocacy over analysis.
.....A week into his presidency, Obama extended an olive branch to Tehran, asking the regime to unclench its fist. Two months later, Obama broadcast a message to Iran, for the first time recognizing the ayatollahs as the legitimate representatives of the Iranian people. Last month, Obama acknowledged the Islamic Republic's right to enrich uranium and, in Cairo, the he acknowledged CIA involvement in the overthrow of an Iranian government more than a half-century ago.
Rhetoric, concession and apology, however, are not enough to alter reality
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Only one problem with this. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not win the election. He now sits in jail while Tehran is burning.
Source?
Trouble has been brewing for the mullahs for years. The youth are pro-Western and tired of the corruption and oppression. Obama didn't create those conditions. And Obama isn't about to convince the mullahs to give up powere. It isn't to his credit-- or disgrace. The only bad part is his attempt to grandstand off of it.
I figure that this would still be happening if McLame was President.
100 percent correct
Obama, McCain, Bush, Chirac, none of them has a damn thing to do with what is going on in Iran today
Perfect.
North Korea Outreach = the other hand cut off
China Outreach = Laughing Chinese cutting off a leg
etc.
Are any of Obama’s formulas working? NO!
Here’s a good place: http://twitter.com/mousavi1388
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WEll, appeasement is not a formula, and, appeasement has no known track record of success. It can delay defeat for a while if it is wildly successful through its distractive qualities playing on an enemies intent.
In a similar fashion, our financial crisis has only used ‘appeasement’ of financial realities to delay the inevitable.
This report suggests the Ayatollah is now controlled by Ahmadinejad...not in jail...http://chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/2009/06/sham-election-indicates-irans-top.html#links
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