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rdean
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I think we can all agree Iran sucks. For lack of a more eloquent term.
What assurances would you like to give them? That if they take over 100 blocks of Tehran we'll drop the 101st? That if they take over this or that we'll air drop M-16's? Would you like our military to walk on over from Iraq?
As much as I disagree with the "strong" "manly" options I understand the motivations for either. Just a limit to our military power.
I'll side with us COVERTLY supporting any destabilizing of Iran by less anti-western factions is probably a good idea. Unless analysts think even more hard America haters will take power. So effectively I'd say sneak the opposition some funds. Give them more cell phones and maybe make sure western satellite tv is available in every corner of the middle east. Anything to drag them into even the 20th century.
What do you think Obama should do?
Did you see this from October?
"The Obama administration has cut funding for pro-democracy and human rights programs in Iran, reversing years of efforts during the Bush administration to help develop a civil society, congressional sources told Newsmax this week.
The move is apparently intended to please Irans rulers after they criticized President Obama and the State Department for allegedly seeking to fund a velvet revolution during the June presidential elections in Iran."
Can-You-Hear-Us-Now!: Obama Cuts Pro-Democracy Funds for Iran
Would you consider this a step in the right, no pun intended, direction?
"President Obama, who undermines his credibility by vacillating between remaining strategically outside of the fray and inserting himself in it by telling Iranians that the whole world is watching, ..."
The Fire Last Time by Daniel J. Flynn, City Journal 24 June 2009
If that is true...Good Lord!!!!
This administration continues to be a marvel of anti-Americanism while holding its highest office...
So, the right wants to cut health care here but spend money on Iran?