Relativism is as relativism does -- and Barack Obama does it well. His less than tepid response to evidence of a rigged election in Iran a few weeks ago and the subsequent brutalization of the Iranian people by an Islamofascist regime says more about our President's worldview than it does his foreign policy.
Amid Tehran's bloody election protests, the Internet was awash with images of Iranian citizens – many beaten, even murdered – desperately reaching out to Uncle Sam for cover. "Obama, please help us, they are killing our young children," implored one protester's sign.
Obama's response? He launched the most vapidly uninspired course of inaction since the days of one-term Jimmy: "It's not productive, given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling," he lectured.
Critics pounced, calling the president's hyper-measured reaction "timid" and "passive." So he stepped it up a notch. This time he expressed "deep concerns about the elections," promising to "monitor the situation." Nonetheless he urged calm saying that he was "waiting to see how it plays out." (Just what Granny needs while she's being mugged: A would-be champion to "monitor the situation" and "see how it plays out.")
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I've felt much the same thing watching the President's reaction over happenings with North Korea. "Let's just sit and wait and see what happens", even though the NK president has made gestures of test firing missles at Hawaii, a US state, and possibly even Obama's birthstate too (although according to wdn.com, even that doesn't even seem clear...)
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments. I agree that Mr. Obama's 'let's just wait and see' approach is concerning! I'm afraid that other contries (which are not our friends) view this as a major weakness on his part.
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