Comments on: My Only Thoughts on Perplexing Persian Politics (Updated) http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/06/14/my-only-thoughts-on-perplexing-persian-politics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-only-thoughts-on-perplexing-persian-politics Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nathan P. Origer http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/06/14/my-only-thoughts-on-perplexing-persian-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Nathan P. Origer Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:56:08 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=182#comment-63 Daniel, I fear that you are right. Thus, I believe that, in contemporary Internet lingo, the appropriate response is something to the effect of "FML." Whichever of the outcomes prevails, I'm curious to see how the Obama Administration reacts. This, more than anything <i>directly</i> related to Israel, may be the real test of the the president's mettle and the sincerity with which he adheres to "Change." Daniel, I fear that you are right. Thus, I believe that, in contemporary Internet lingo, the appropriate response is something to the effect of “FML.”

Whichever of the outcomes prevails, I’m curious to see how the Obama Administration reacts. This, more than anything directly related to Israel, may be the real test of the the president’s mettle and the sincerity with which he adheres to “Change.”

]]> By: Daniel McCarthy http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/06/14/my-only-thoughts-on-perplexing-persian-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Daniel McCarthy Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:50:48 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=182#comment-62 What's really awful is that no matter what happens now, the neocons and liberal hawks will push for more hostility toward Iran. If, as I suspect will happen, Ahmadinejad consolidates power by taking further repressive measures, our immoral foreign-policy moralists will be all the more bellicose toward his country. But if the protests somehow topple him, the hawks will claim to be oh-so-surprised when the next regime is something less than a liberal democracy and staunch ally of Israel. They'll exploit false expectations to make a case that the West must now be even more paranoid, since if even the "reformers" are bad, surely the country cannot be made good until U.S. troops bring real American democracy to the country. What’s really awful is that no matter what happens now, the neocons and liberal hawks will push for more hostility toward Iran. If, as I suspect will happen, Ahmadinejad consolidates power by taking further repressive measures, our immoral foreign-policy moralists will be all the more bellicose toward his country. But if the protests somehow topple him, the hawks will claim to be oh-so-surprised when the next regime is something less than a liberal democracy and staunch ally of Israel. They’ll exploit false expectations to make a case that the West must now be even more paranoid, since if even the “reformers” are bad, surely the country cannot be made good until U.S. troops bring real American democracy to the country.

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