 clipped from pajamasmedia.com
The answer, then is: we are doing very badly. Indeed, we’re not doing at all. Au contraire, we and our feckless Western allies are, for the most part, actively appeasing those whom we should be confronting. We famously dithered as Iran crushed the incipient revolution (a revolution that would have enormously mitigated the threat Iran represents). It’s obvious that Obama et. al. were annoyed and embarrassed by the outpouring of passion for freedom all over Iran, because it interrupted their efforts at lovemaking with the regime’s leaders. Meanwhile, Obama announced he is sending an ambassador to Damascus, where Bashar Assad is Iran’s most faithful friend in the region. And nothing at all is being done to restrain the Saudis’ |
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