President Obama has chosen to follow a path of cowardice instead of leadership with regards to the crisis in Iran. As a result, the Iranian regime appears to be emboldened to deal with the situation as they see fit. President Obama could very easily have taken a strong position against the actions of Iran’s government early on in this crisis – not against the regime directly, but against the overly brutal actions of Iran’s government that are not in-line with basic tennants of human rights and civility. He could have called for the government to offer up a public and fair recount of the areas where the voting irregularities were reported; suggesting that this would go a long way to diffuse the energy behind the crisis. He could continually call the Iranian government out for not allowing the peaceful protests of its citizens and invite them to work with the protesters who, after all, are the people of Iran. What government is anything were it not for its nation’s people? Indeed the President could be doing a lot more to help bring a peaceful end to the crisis in Iran that doesn’t undermine either the Iranian government nor the protestors. He could be offering support for the ideals of protesters and of their peaceful demonstrations. He could be applying whatever pressure his administration could muster to encourage a peaceful resolution to the crisis while condemning the Iranian government’s violence and the restrictions on the press on the free and peaceful demonstrations by the Iranian people. He could be bringing continual pressure for them to cease their brutal actions. Instead he sits idle – offering carefully worded statements with no backbone behind them only when prodded into it by his critics. His quietness on this issue only encourages the Iranian government to do whatever it likes to squelch the protests and put down the uprising.
As President Obama continues to remain passive on this issue, I believe you’ll see a continued increase in the violence used to put an end to the protests.
Given that Obama has no leadership experience; no executive experience; no experience running a business; and only marginal political experience; it is little wonder that he has little offer in the form of leadership during this crisis. It wasn’t that many years ago that he was merely a state senator in Illinois and now he sits atop the most powerful policital position in the world. Even then, he chose to sit on the sidelines during the big issues voting “present” instead of aligning himself with a particular side on heated issues.
Say what you will about President Reagan; but he would have known exactly how to deal with this crisis. Does anyone remember the Iran hostage crisis?
How many more cries from the Iranian people will be heard by people like the woman in this video before someone finally listens? If not the United States, then who? Aren’t we supposed to be a nation about liberty and freedom and all that? How could we not respect that elsewhere in the world? How many more days of violence remain before the people of Iran are finally silenced only to remain oppressed by a brutal regime they are powerless to depose? I see little chance of any other result for as long as President Obama and the rest of the world remains silent – simply waiting for this crisis to just go away so we can continue our normally scheduled agenda.
Note: This story was also posted at www.novanglus.org
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