... (0 comments)Read the following and see if you can figure out who wrote it:
The Obama policy of extending an open hand to Iran is working and should not be abandoned because of the grim events in Tehran.For the Iranian theocracy has just administered a body blow to its legitimacy in the eyes of the Iranian people and the world.
Before Saturday, the regime could credibly posture as defender of the nation, defiant in the face of the threats from Israel, faithful to the cause of the Palestinians, standing firm for Iran’s right to enrich uranium for peaceful nuclear power.
Today, the regime, including the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is under a cloud of suspicion that they are but another gang of corrupt politicians who brazenly stole a presidential election to keep themselves and their clerical cronies in power…
There are other reasons Obama should not heed the war hawks howling for confrontation now.
When your adversary is making a fool of himself, get out of the way. That is a rule of politics Lyndon Johnson once put into the most pungent of terms. U.S. fulminations will change nothing in Tehran. But they would enable the regime to divert attention to U.S. meddling in Iran’s affairs and portray the candidate robbed in this election, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, as a poodle of the Americans…
The dilemma for America is that the theocracy defines itself and grounds its claim to leadership through its unyielding resistance to the Great Satan—the United States—and to Israel.
Nevertheless, Obama, with his outstretched hand, his message to Iran on its national day, his admission that the United States had a hand in the 1953 coup in Tehran, his assurances that we recognize Iran’s right to nuclear power, succeeded. He stripped the Ayatollah and Ahmadinejad of their clinching argument—that America is out to destroy Iran and they are indispensable to Iran’s defense.
Any clue who wrote it?
Bill Ayers?
Noam Chomsky?
Barney Frank?
Lefty “Homo” McGayerson?
Nope, it was Pat Buchanan, writing at the ultraconservative website TownHall.com.
I guess what they say about a broken clock being right twice a day has some merit.
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Pat Buchanan is usually thoughtful, and sometimes right on the money. He also is not a thoughtless Republican attack dog. Not that I usually agree with him, but he does try and think his way out of a paper bag.
i've always had a love/hate relationship with Pat. he is a smart guy with some really shady undercurrents. he sometimes breaks with party orthodoxy and when he does, it's a sight to behold.
Yes, it is silly to portray Pat Buchanan as an "ultraconservative." Why are you still caught up in the false left/right paradigm? Think big! It works for Pat Buchanan.
read the line again, I described TownHall as ultraconservative. i realize that Pat can sometimes have some good ideas. sure, he's a pretty shameless racist and is far too much of a booster for the Christian Right but his isolationist tendencies have led him to some good thinking on our place in the world and Bush's stupidity when it comes to imperial expansionism. i even have his book "Where the Right Went Wrong" on my bookshelf at home.
Greaat post! You totally had me guessing. I was guessing McGayerson…LOL! Obama is clearly one of the most impressive catalytic leaders and strategic thinkers I've ever watched in action. Chess anyone? I'm betting on Barack and his team, hands down. And did you watch the AMA presentation he gave yesterday? Strategically brilliant, and sincere…and happens to be right…that always helps.
i saw a couple clips of his speech but didn't see the whole thing. i'll have to go look it up
Cool story bro!
Epitomises what I have been thinking
Pat Buchanan may be a neanderthal when it comes to social issues, but on foreign policy he speaks more sense than most of them.
he is able to get it right on foreign policy issues sometimes because he's a paleo-isolationist, which in our current world seems like a pretty darn good policy! :)
Yes, Buchanan is a mixed bag, but he's an American First conservative which falls right in line with his analysis here. One things certain, he's consistent -- which means at times I agree with him and at times I don't. But the man has a guiding philosophy and I agree with him here to be sure.
i definitely credit him for his consistency and holding true to most of his principles. some of his principles are pretty horrible but at least you know where he stands. i wish i could say that about much of anyone on Capitol Hill these days.
There's a bunch of true conservative realists out there that ought to be calling the foreign policy shots in the Republican party. This guy made this same point 24 hours earlier:
http://ypnation.net/blogs/let-iran-shoot-its-foot…