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His website: http://victorhanson.com/
NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
Pajamasmedia: http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/
“Much of Iran wants what they see going on in Iraq. How odd that the ‘experts’ assured us that Bush had empowered Iran by removing his rival Saddam. Perhaps in the short term-but in the long term TV, radio, and osmosis from free Iraq is proving more destabilizing to the theocracy in Iran than are Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and shaped charged IEDs to Iraq.”
This should be on a billboard in Berkley, California.
This one was very nearly another home run for Hanson, but unfortunately it hit the foul pole and bounced out of play.
The foul here is that Hanson assumes something that many of Obama’s critics assume: that Obama is weak in the way Carter was weak.
Obama is not weak. He’s doing exactly what he wants to do.
He wants to strengthen dictatorships around the world with the long-term goal of transforming his own presidency into one.
He’s not letting American foreign power slip away. He’s subverting that power. He is working for our enemies against the American people.
Until critics like Hanson get this essential fact about Obama, their criticisms will seem like home runs but will actually bounce uselessly out of play.
The Big Secret: Obama can be managed with a shrewd strategy. If anyone can appeal to his ego, they can move a political initiative. This is because Obama is simply not very bright. But, he has learned this crucial lesson: It’s not how smart you. It’s how smart people THINK you are.
It is what it is. Unfortunately, if people of Iran actually do bring down Dinnerjacket, then Obama and the press will take all the credit for the stark contrast of bloodless peace that Obama has brough to the midddle east.
This will (falsely) advance their appeasement course for years.
Bush and Reagan will not get any credit. Tough moral decisions will not get any credit. The military will not get any credit.
Obama doesn’t care what the man in the streets of Iran thinks of America. He only cares what the power-players think of America, because he’s an ambitious, glory-seeking suck-up with a woefully dysfunctional moral compass.