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Stuck In Naive Obama-land?

If you have to explain a joke, it isn’t a good joke.

If you have to explain a blog post…

“The president is also speaking in code. The Pope [John Paul II] spoke in a code which was implicit and understood support for the forces of freedom. The code the administration is using is implicit support for this repressive, tyrannical regime,” - Charles Krauthammer.

Unbelievable. Stuck in the ancient past.

Would you mind explaining please, Sullivan? How is supporting the forces of freedom being “stuck in the ancient past?”

Obviously Sullivan is greatly displeased with Krauthammer’s criticism of the stance Obama is taking on Iran. But, why? Hmmm.

So, Obama is desperately worried about displeasing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei whom he referes to as “the Supreme Leader.”

From Ralph Peters:

Silence is complicity. Our president’s refusal to take a forthright moral stand on the side of the Iranian freedom marchers is read in Tehran as a blank check for the current regime.

The fundamentalist junta has begun arresting opposition figures, with regime mouthpieces raising the prospect of the death penalty. Inevitably, there are claims that dissidents have been “hoarding weapons and explosives.”

Foreign media reps are under house arrest. Cellphone frequencies are jammed. Students are killed and the killings disavowed.

And our president is “troubled,” but doesn’t believe we should “meddle” in Iran’s internal affairs. (Meddling in Israel’s domestic affairs is just fine, though.)

We just turned our backs on freedom.

Again.

Yeah. Don’t you just love the postmodernist diplomatic flair Obama brings to the world stage? While he’s fretting over how to make good with whoever wins, the mullahs are busy trying to kill freedom that may eventually come to fruition.

It’s painfully obvious who we should be supporting in Iran. But Obama wants to play his naive diplomacy games, disgracefully worrying about not offending the Mullahs instead supporting a few million disenfranchised Iranians whose last glimmer of freedom is being stamped out before their eyes.

Does Andrew Sullivan really support a free Iran? Is he, like Obama, trying to have it both ways?

SILENCE is complicity. Our president’s refusal to take a forthright moral stand on the side of the Iranian freedom marchers is read in Tehran as a blank check for the current regime.

The fundamentalist junta has begun arresting opposition figures, with regime mouthpieces raising the prospect of the death penalty. Inevitably, there are claims that dissidents have been “hoarding weapons and explosives.”

Foreign media reps are under house arrest. Cellphone frequencies are jammed. Students are killed and the killings disavowed.

And our president is “troubled,” but doesn’t believe we should “meddle” in Iran’s internal affairs. (Meddling in Israel’s domestic affairs is just fine, though.)

We just turned our backs on freedom.

Again.