Bloodthirsty Liberal

I have to apologize for our appalling lack of grace and manners in observing the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the hostages in Iran, and our administration’s craven response—then and now—to that brazen violation of international law.

Thank goodness Caroline Glick did it for us:

[T]housands of Iranians in cities throughout the country took advantage of the regime’s planned demonstrations celebrating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy in Teheran to protest against the regime. These regime opponents willingly placed themselves in front of the batons, tear gas cannons and guns of Iranian regime goons to protest June’s stolen presidential election and to call for the overthrow of the mullahs’ regime of tyranny and its replacement with a democracy.

The protesters turned regime supporters’ calls for “Death to America,” and “Death to Israel” into big, deadly jokes by calling out, “Death to the Dictator” (that is, supreme ruler Ali Khamenei) and “Death to Russia.”

Far from embracing the regime’s 30-year war against the US and the nation-state based international system, representatives of the “Green Revolution” asked the US to forgive Iran for taking 52 US Embassy personnel hostage in 1979.

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The Iranian opposition movement announced weeks ago that its members would be out in force at the anniversary rallies on Wednesday. And on Wednesday, the protesters begged the world for support. They called out to US President Barack Obama, “You’re either with us or with them.”

But Obama - in full appeasement mode - issued a statement ahead of Wednesday’s “Death to America” rallies announcing, “We do not interfere in Iran’s internal affairs.” That is, when asked to choose between Iran’s freedom riders or their oppressors, he chose the oppressors. The US is with the mullahs against the Iranian people.

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Obama said, “I have made it clear that the United States of America wants to move beyond this past, and seeks a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interests and mutual respect… We have recognized Iran’s international right to peaceful nuclear power. We have demonstrated our willingness to take confidence-building steps along with others in the international community. We have accepted a proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency to meet Iran’s request for assistance in meeting the medical needs of its people. We have made clear that if Iran lives up to the obligations that every nation has, it will have a path to a more prosperous and productive relationship with the international community.”

And when Khamenei responded to Obama’s obsequious bowing and scraping by saying that negotiating with the US was a “naïve and perverted” enterprise, the Obama administration had nothing to say.

Well, what is one supposed to say in response to a bitch slap? “Ow” just doesn’t sound like a leader of the free world.

But then, neither does Obama:

Early Wednesday morning, IDF naval commandos boarded the merchant ship Francop and diverted it to the naval base at Ashdod. There the IDF displayed its cargo of 3,000 rockets and various and other sundry ordnance useful only to terror forces.

The Francop originated in Iran and was intercepted en route to Iran’s Hizbullah proxy force in Lebanon via Iran’s Arab toady Syria.

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Wednesday’s raid has had no discernible impact on American policy. The US did not denounce either Syria or Iran for breaching the UN Security Council resolution barring Iranian arms shipments as well as the Security Council resolution prohibiting nations from arming Hizbullah. The US did not state that in response to what Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called a “smoking gun,” it will reconsider its decision to send an ambassador to Damascus or its commitment to appeasing Iran through its nuclear talks in Geneva. The only thing a State Department official could bring himself to say was that the US is concerned about “Hizbullah’s efforts to rearm in direct violation of various UN Security Council resolutions,” and remark that the groups remains, “a significant threat to peace and security in Lebanon and the region.”

Do we sound like a reliable trustworthy ally? Not to me, either.

William F. Buckley famously announced at the founding of the magazine National Review that he intended to “stand athwart history, yelling Stop”. It’s a nice image, but I feel it needs to be set on a small river, approaching a waterfall. Aggie and I (and most readers) standing and yelling, but I think history is moving in the wrong (and very dangerous) direction.

We’ve been hard on the UK (well, Aggie has), and with good reason.

However.

For he himself has said it,
And it’s greatly to his credit,
That he is an Englishman!

Barack Obama: President Pantywaist

Barack Obama’s chances of re-election in three and a half years’ time may be evaporating at unprecedented speed, but his presidential ambitions could still be realised in another direction. He would be a shoo-in to win the next Russian presidential election, so high is his popularity now running in the land of the bear and the knout. Obama has done more to restore Russia’s hegemonial potential in Eastern and Central Europe than even Vladimir Putin.

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If the word is out that America is in retreat, it will soon find it has no friends. The satellites will pragmatically accept their restored subordination, without openly acknowledging it, and co-operate with their dangerous neighbour, ushering in a new generation of Finlandisation.

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Barack Obama is selling out America and, by extension, the entire West. This is a catastrophe for America and the wider world.

Just when the world needs America to push back the advance of evil from Islamic fundamentalists, to stand up to the tinpot tyrants and duplicitous dictators that proliferate like mushrooms after a spring rain, to lead honestly and rationally on any number of transnational issues, President Pantywaist has opted to neuter himself (easy)—and us (out of my cold dead hand).

And speaking of eunuchs, where has Mr. Too-Busy-To-Bother-About-ACORN been spending his precious time?

U.S. President Barack Obama listens to the Libyan representative deliver his remarks in the United Nations Security Council, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009.

He sits down with mass murderers.

I prefer those who stand opposed.