Obama's Fit of Moral Absence on Iran
From "The little president who wasn't there," by James Lewis, in American Thinker (http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/the_little_president_who_wasnt.html).
The White House is now occupied by a little president who just isn't there when he is called upon to take a clear, moral stand. For such sheer gutless flabbiness and evasion, you have to look back to the dismal Jimmy Carter years.
Yep. Obama is basically Carter II.
If Tehran seems quieter today, it's because the civilian demonstrators have been identified and are being beaten and tortured and maybe killed in Evin Prison. Don't believe for a moment that the sadistic regime has changed, just because you don't see people bleeding on the streets. They are bleeding all right. It's just out of public view.
But Obama's ok with this -- at least they aren't embarassing him any more.
Remember: it's all about Obama. Even when it isn't.
Barack Obama loves to preen and parade his "higher" morality. But when it comes to Iranians struggling against ugly tyranny or the people of North Korean just trying to fill their bellies with food, our little president just isn't there. Nowhere to be found.
Well, Obama's higher morality is in fact so high and subtle and uncommon that it doesn't apply to the mean gross things of mere reality. It only applies to higher realities. You haven't been to an Ivy League college, so you wouldn't understand.
Chances are that behind the scenes the mullahs are promising Obama a glorious peace agreement that will allow him to parade his gargantuan ego around the world one more time. They are Persian rug sellers over there, who know all about hard bargaining. They've got his number: He's a pushover. Obama will trade personal glory against the freedom of Iran's people any day of the week.
And the truly sad thing is that they're conning Obama. Once the Iranian regime is no longer under pressure, they will find some excuse to not deliver on the deal, and Obama will be left wondering what just happened. Because, of course, in his mind he can't have been conned. He's too smart for that. He's the Obamessiah, after all!
So the most moralistic president since Jimmy is also a moral coward. Not surprising, is it? Moralizing is just another way of propping up one's ego. Morality is making the tough choices when life presents us with a clear choice between good and evil.
Right. Obama is all about seeming moral, not being moral.
What makes me despise Obama in this is that the risk to Obama himself of opposing Iran is trivial. He's sitting in his nice safe White House surrounded by the Secret Service and defended by the whole US Armed Forces. He's not running the risks of -- say -- an Iranian protestor taking to the street in the face of the psychopathic basiji and imported Palestinian Arab thugs.
Obama doesn't even have the guts to talk tough. That's truly cowardly of him.
Obama isn't looking for that. He mainly wants to be celebrated as Mr. Peace and Love. Vainglory is the driving force of his character. When he is presented with an historic opportunity of college students on the streets of Tehran and other cities, fighting storm troopers with their bodies and moral force alone, he totally flubs the chance. Obama doesn't stand for anything.
... except Obama. And he's only able to make even that stand because other, braver men are willing to run risks to defend his power.
What a sad little man, pretending to be a messiah.
The White House is now occupied by a little president who just isn't there when he is called upon to take a clear, moral stand. For such sheer gutless flabbiness and evasion, you have to look back to the dismal Jimmy Carter years.
Yep. Obama is basically Carter II.
If Tehran seems quieter today, it's because the civilian demonstrators have been identified and are being beaten and tortured and maybe killed in Evin Prison. Don't believe for a moment that the sadistic regime has changed, just because you don't see people bleeding on the streets. They are bleeding all right. It's just out of public view.
But Obama's ok with this -- at least they aren't embarassing him any more.
Remember: it's all about Obama. Even when it isn't.
Barack Obama loves to preen and parade his "higher" morality. But when it comes to Iranians struggling against ugly tyranny or the people of North Korean just trying to fill their bellies with food, our little president just isn't there. Nowhere to be found.
Well, Obama's higher morality is in fact so high and subtle and uncommon that it doesn't apply to the mean gross things of mere reality. It only applies to higher realities. You haven't been to an Ivy League college, so you wouldn't understand.
Chances are that behind the scenes the mullahs are promising Obama a glorious peace agreement that will allow him to parade his gargantuan ego around the world one more time. They are Persian rug sellers over there, who know all about hard bargaining. They've got his number: He's a pushover. Obama will trade personal glory against the freedom of Iran's people any day of the week.
And the truly sad thing is that they're conning Obama. Once the Iranian regime is no longer under pressure, they will find some excuse to not deliver on the deal, and Obama will be left wondering what just happened. Because, of course, in his mind he can't have been conned. He's too smart for that. He's the Obamessiah, after all!
So the most moralistic president since Jimmy is also a moral coward. Not surprising, is it? Moralizing is just another way of propping up one's ego. Morality is making the tough choices when life presents us with a clear choice between good and evil.
Right. Obama is all about seeming moral, not being moral.
What makes me despise Obama in this is that the risk to Obama himself of opposing Iran is trivial. He's sitting in his nice safe White House surrounded by the Secret Service and defended by the whole US Armed Forces. He's not running the risks of -- say -- an Iranian protestor taking to the street in the face of the psychopathic basiji and imported Palestinian Arab thugs.
Obama doesn't even have the guts to talk tough. That's truly cowardly of him.
Obama isn't looking for that. He mainly wants to be celebrated as Mr. Peace and Love. Vainglory is the driving force of his character. When he is presented with an historic opportunity of college students on the streets of Tehran and other cities, fighting storm troopers with their bodies and moral force alone, he totally flubs the chance. Obama doesn't stand for anything.
... except Obama. And he's only able to make even that stand because other, braver men are willing to run risks to defend his power.
What a sad little man, pretending to be a messiah.