Monday, June 22, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Clare M. Lopez: Supporters of 'dialogue' with the Iranian Mullahs help keep the US from 'meddling' on behalf of freedom - 'The question is, how did America fall from the soaring rhetoric of President George W. Bush's 2005 State of the Union address - when he said: "And to the Iranian people, I say tonight: As you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you" - to a position on the sidelines, passively watching Iranian security forces club and shoot unarmed demonstrators on the streets of Tehran? The apparent answer is that advocates of a policy of accommodation that is more in sync with the priorities of the Tehran regime than with U.S. national security interests now wield influence from inside the Obama administration...'
