There have been few times in my lifetime when I have been ashamed to be an American, but this is one of them. For our own President NOT to come right out and support the Iranian demonstrators was a terrible mistake and it betrays everything this country is supposed to stand for. Face it, the mullahs are going to blame us no matter what we do, so we may as well stand with the demonstrators and give them our full support. What the mullahs don’t seem to understand is that Moussavi is almost irrelevant now. The killing has started and the bodies are piling up and the Iranian public has had enough of their oppressive, medieval, theocracy. It may not happen in the next few days, or even months, but the people of Iran have had enough of the mullahs and want a change. And once the mullahs lose the support of the people, trying to stop them is going to be like trying to stop the Berlin Wall from falling. This rebellion is just going to keep growing until it gets a charismatic leader and then that will be the end of the mullahs and their supporting thugs in the Revolutionary Guards. For the American President not to come right out and support this amazing act of courage on the part of the Iranian people is embarrassing and shows how cowardly this administration has become. The mullahs can threaten us with whatever they want, but it means nothing, nothing, if they are overthrown by their own people. We should be doing everything in our power to support this revolution because it doesn’t seem like their leaders can be much worse than what the mullahs are offering right now. If the revolutionaries win, then at least we could say that America supported them when it counted most. If the revolutionaries fail, then America and the Western European powers will have the moral authority to further isolate the despotic regime in Tehran. And the mullahs will NOT attack us in Iraq or Afghanistan if they know we can destroy their power base at home by supporting the revolutionaries with guns and money. We should be standing firmly against dictators and with the people who are fighting for their own chance at democracy. The best part about this is that, aside from moral support, America doesn’t need to do much of anything. This is the Iranian people’s fight and they are the ones who are goign to win it, just like the people of Eastern Europe overthrew their Soviet masters. Shame on President Obama for not being on the right side of history.
