“More importantly, for years, the Left has correctly pointed out that the people of Iran generally favor America and aspire to have good relations with America.”
Umm, I think that this is a highly questionable line of argument even without resorting to polling data, the latest of which does not at all support it. The very fact that Iran as a ‘whole’ thought and perhaps still thinks that Mullahs have a superior place in political life would tend to lead the the very opposite conclusion. Iran is NOT really a ‘like-us’ country with a veneer of Islamic Cluelessness imposed from the top. It is rather more likely to be a very ‘backward-looking’ society with a veneer of modernity imposed from the top. Is that not one of the reasons that the Shah fell ? Because he was ‘Westernizing’ TOO FAST ?
Obama’s Iran pronouncements and inaction are distasteful to be sure in that they appear and may in fact be, Spineless and Un-Principled, but I think he is right in one thing .
Iran is NOT now and is not going to be ‘friendly’ to the US in the foreseeable future. No matter which cabal runs the place.
