The Shuttered White House and Its Fantasies
Not so long ago, the White House was telling journalists that there was a new “Obama Doctrine,” driven by the three Valkyries (Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha Power), according to which the United States is obliged to rally to the side of people protesting for their freedom against regimes killing them because of their courage. That’s why, we were told, Obama authorized the American Air Force to bomb the Libyan armed forces.
That was clearly a hoax, wasn’t it? For the Syrian and Iranian regimes have murdered more of their own than Qadaffi ever did, and they kill Americans too. So if it was right to support Qadaffi’s opposition, it’s even more right to support Assad’s and Khamenei’s. Forget it. Instead, our most dangerous enemies — who turn out to be the most bloodthirsty killers in the region — are more often than not treated as if they were potential allies who have temporarily gone astray. Take the Taliban, for example.
Just as LBJ was forever trying to apply just the right amount of violence in order to get the North Vietnamese to “reason together” at the negotiating table, so we are forever organizing (or, at a minimum, supporting) peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan. The result: the chief negotiator gets blown up by a terrorist with a bomb in his turban (as in the famous Danish cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb in his own turban that was judged so insulting to the “Muslim world” [another fantasy] that it was used as an excuse for riots in Copenhagen and all over the Middle East). And it seems, at least from a distance, that Taliban attacks are increasing, not diminishing.
Or take Iran. Nowhere is the administration’s incoherence more dramatic. The regime is conducting a widespread war against Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as slaughtering its own. From time to time the administration, including the president himself, puts out information confirming it all. But not only is there no support for the Iranian people — who have long since demonstrated their hatred of the regime and their willingness to risk life and limb to challenge it — the president steadfastly refuses to call for regime change in Tehran. In his speech to the United Nations today, he warned that if Iran does not clean up its act, it will suffer greater “isolation.”
Meanwhile, Khamenei and Ahmadinejad unleash mass murder against us and the Iranian people, and race towards acquisition of nuclear devices with which they can kill far more of us and our allies. And what are we planning to do in response to their acts of war? Perhaps more sanctions (which are welcome but will not bring down the regime or force the mullahs to change their policy), and certainly more negotiations, which have been ongoing since Obama’s 2008 campaign. It’s obvious that the hostage release was negotiated, for example. One will get you five that the White House arranged the million dollar ransom, and the odds are that there were additional concessions as well. This sort of incoherence is contagious, and spreads to the minds of people who ought to know better. It seems that military planners are pondering the creation of a “hot line” to Tehran, to avoid “accidental war.”
But war is already under way, and it’s no accident. This is more fantasyland. Just listen to what the Wall Street Journal’s reporters have to say and you’ll see a masterpiece of blithering:
At least initially, defense officials are most enthusiastic about expanding navy-to-navy contacts with Iran to prevent miscalculations. But they remain wary of any direct engagement with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, due to its deep ties to Middle East militant groups the U.S. has designated terrorist organizations, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian territories.
At the same time, U.S. officials acknowledge that most of these near-altercations with Iran have involved the IRGC, making its command central to resolving many disputes.
So, by the administration’s own standards, it’s a non-starter. And that’s the least of it. For unless you believe that the Iranians will use the hot line to avoid conflict, its creation offers them a golden opportunity to deceive us, to delay our response to their attacks, and to put even more Americans at risk.
It ought to be obvious. But then, it should have been obvious a long time ago that Syria and Iran were foes, not friends, that they want our defeat and destruction, and that our only real choice is between defeating them or losing to them.
Hard to win when everyone around the president tells him he’s a genius.
Inaction has consequences.
Your been-there-done-that take about how Obama is living in a fantasy is so spot on.
What cognitive dissonance!
The Obama crowd hangs on to believing he’s fantastic, and all the time his whole trip has been a fantasy. Since America still somewhat gets the government she deserves, it seems pretty obvious to me that a majority of voters were conned into the “fantastic” Obama, and now that reality is impinging on them, the “fantasy” is apparent.
Americans are SLOW learners, it seems to me.
I disagree that the ignorance and dithering in the WH at the moment is due to a ‘hunkered down in the bunker’s’ protectionist mentality within the WH. I think the agenda and policies of Obama and the WH are more neurotic than that.
First, the WH, in its policies, has to deal with Obama. Obama has no capacity to connect to reality. He lives in a ‘virtual reality’. This is a world that he makes up for himself. In words. That enables him to feel in control. As a clinical narcissist, Obama must feel that he controls all people and events in his contacts…or…he feels threatened. Obama has no ability to connect to people and events outside of his ‘words’, outside of his control.
This is why his foreign policy is so disastrous. Apart from words – whether it’s the Cairo speech, or his attempts to ‘let’s talk’, or his speech that the US will always come to the aid of those attacked by their govts (heh, so much for the people of Syria and Iran)..or his ponderous declarations of ‘we’ll sanction you’ to Iran and Syria…well, there’s nothing to his foreign policy.
He’s isolated Israel, somehow thinking that such would bring them to the negotiation table, when instead it did the opposite. He’s kowtowed to the Islamists, again, assuming that His Words would make them swoon into submission. He dithered about Egypt, and dithered about Libya, and was only forced into going in by France and Britain (Obama is now taking personal credit for the ‘win’ in Libya). He’s insulted each and every traditional ally of the US.
Does he have a foreign policy for the US? I don’t see one. Bush was focused around reducing the power of Al Qaeda and enabling democracy in the ME Islamic nations as a key strategy of such a reduction of power. Obama? He rejects democracy in the USA!!! He ignores Congress! He sidelines their laws and sets up his special departments to carry out actions rejected by Congress (EPA)!
And, as another characteristic of his personality, Obama cannot handle dissent, questions, criticism. So, the WH staff aren’t simply protecting him from the outside world. They are dealing with someone who can’t handle the outside world in its real active uncontrollable nature. That’s the reason why the WH is, more and more, sounding like something from Alice in Wonderland.
I agree with what you write but there’s a lot more to what makes Obama tick. He’s been hiding who he is his whole life. What he’s hiding is pretty obvious but is too politically incorrect to say here although it’s accepted on many blogs.
This pretending to be something that he isn’t has to be a crushing burden on his psyche. He’s play acted his whole life and he’s really not that good at it either which is why we see the weird robotic body movements even going as far as looking like an actual cardboard cut-out which was the subject of the first video I ever made about him three years ago.
Over the years I’ve picked up on many of his behavioral peculiarties which I’ve put on Facebook and in videos. I always say that the people who know Obama best are the photographers and lately with all the unflattering photos of him it seems they’ve turned on him.
Both comments are spot on, and I really can only add that I pray that Obama is unleashing WWIII before he’s defeated. A clinical narcissist will not relinquish power before he destroys that which is taken from him.
the war is on. we haven’t entered it yet.
God help us!
My thoughts exactly. Still 14 months to go before the election and a lot of time for things to get a lot worse
He’s isolated Israel, somehow thinking that such would bring them to the negotiation table,
They were at the negotiating table; it was the Palestinians that walked out.
Erdogan has within the last week renewed his desire for EU membership. Germany is still resisting and offering a privileged partnership. Is Erdogan just trying to get Obama to put more pressure on Merkel?
IMHO the Turks know they are not going to be in the EU.
Yeah, that train left the station, went over the cliff, and rolled sideways into the lake. EU? Daddy, what’s an EU?
It’s remarkable to watch this rat struggling to get ON the sinking EU ship.
I agree, but Erdogan probably won’t mind if the Turks in Germany are upset by their “rejection.” What he probably wants is to counter the effects that any more or less assimilated Turks will have on his supporters. Nor will Erdogan mind if there is a further resentment by Germans of being pushed around by the evil Amis.
Furthermore: Are the Turks still ‘members’ of NATO?
If so, why?
How many noses allowed under the tent before someone starts cutting them off to spite the enemy’s faces?
Yeah, the genius that needs a teleprompter, but at least he is gutsy. [eyes rolling]
From the first 2008 Presidential debate:
“I reserve the right, as President of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing….” – Obama speaking about Iran.
Inter-Navy comms may act to resolve disputes, but more likely, they will be used as a way to delay a proper reaction until the moment has passed. For them to be positive requires an honest partner on the other side. Such does not exist with Iran.
This statement from the debates should have been yet another red flag. The President cannot afford to meet with just anyone. That is not how it works. Obama just thinks he is the ultimate salesman and can resolve anything. I liked VodkaPundit’s comment in response to Obama’s position about talking, while he drunk-blogged the debate. “I wave legal papers in your general direction, you Persian sons of hamsters!” Obama is empty talk. We talk, while they do.
Iran’s Navy is pathetic compared to ours. The laws of the sea are clear. When the Iranians trespass, we should just sink them and go about our business. Swat them like a bug. It is the only thing they understand.
Fantasies is right. This guy is a type of person who disappeared from earth about 200 years ago. He has no connections to reality whatsoever.
When kings were really kings, they grew up as essentially infallable in their own domains. Nobody could challenge them even as youths because that could result in a chopped head when the youth grew older. So there was a small but real category of human beings who lived their entire lives without ever being told the truth about themselves.
That disappeared when modern governments evolved after the American Revolution. NOBODY grew up thinking they could not make a mistake. Even the proto-maniacs like Lenin, Hitler and Stalins failed in their childhoods. In Hitler’s case, the failure was monstrous. And no other world leader ever went through life without challenge either.
And outside of world leaders, who doesn’t experience failure, repeatedly in one’s life? Donald Trump has nearly gone bankrupt a number of times, but even if he had the uninterrupted success of a Warren Buffet, it wouldn’t matter. They are all answerable to their customer, and to politicians, and to their wives (well, a little bit at least). As you move down the chain from Trumps and Buffets into ordinary human beings, even the most successful get stopped, repeatedly, throughout their lives. It’s just part of life…unless you were born a king.
But now consider Obama. He might as well be a king. He reached the position of the most powerful man on earth as if by magic. It certainly wasn’t due to his own skills. He hardly has any. He hasn’t even had to work…the man has never held a real job. He was annointed at every phase of his life. It really is the most extraordinary thing. Magical entrance to the most prestigous prep school in Hawaii, followed by the destirable college Occidental, followed by Columbia, followed by “Community Organizing” where no accoplishments never made a dent, followed by the most prestiguous law school on the planet, followed by a magical appointment to Law Review Editor even though he never wrote, no matter editted a legal paper, followed by an autobiography in his early thirties which he didn’t even have to auto himself, followed by an annointment to CEO of the Annenburg Challenge which he no doubt assumed was a prestigous role rather than a money distributor, followed by an annointment to State Legislator, followed by the waters parting to open a seat in the Senate, followed by Greek columns opening the door to the most powerful job in the world, followed by the Nobel prize in his first month in office, followed by article after article proclaiming him a near god, a god, a genius, the saviour of the world.
And we wonder why he is such a narcissist.
This guy can’t begin to imagine that he is anything less than a god.
I think he is incapable of self reflection. He is incapable of even considering the idea that he might be wrong about anything from the salad dressing to nuclear war.
There hasn’t been anyone like him on earth since the Romonovs were killed.
Nice outline of Obama’s steps-to-glory. As you point out, none of these were due to any real merit or actions or accomplishments on his part. None.
As a clinical narcissist, which means someone who must control all interactions with others, to ensure his own sense of domination, Obama has interacted with others using three prime tactics. Remember, he moved into this state probably as a young boy, and interacts only within these three tactics: misinformation, emotional manipulation and accusations that you are racist/bigoted/ignorant if you resist him.
Obama misinforms; that is, he lies constantly. Obama has no connection to reality. None. Absolutely none. His only reality lies within the words he says. So, he’ll make claims about massive jobs developed – false claims – to one audience one day, and a different claim to a different audience another day. If the jobs don’t exist, Obama ignores this ‘disinformation’. Obama ignores whatever of reality he doesn’t accept. Obama lies; all the time.
Emotional manipulation? Heh. His fear-mongering is now legion, from his insistence that Congress pass the first stimulus or the econmoic sky would fall, to his threats to pass the debt ceiling increase or, he’d be unable to ‘send you your Social Security checks this month’ (A blatant lie)..and so on. And he insists and expects you to submit to His Will. That includes Congress, which Obama considers irrelevant (pass the bill! Don’t bother reading it!)
Are you still resisting him? He’ll accuse you of ignorance, you don’t understand his Good Will; he’ll accuse you of political bias, of ethnic bias, of….and, Obama has played the race card every step of the way.
That’s all there is to him. And he’s succeeded in his own agenda of control and power ..up to now. The situation with someone as pathological as Obama, is that they are ‘stable’ in situations where they can actually feel in control. If Obama had been left as a community organizer, damage to the US would have been limited to the local domain. Put someone that pathological in a situation where it is impossible to control all people and all events – and you get a very serious situation.
Obama will try to control this larger domain…by his three tactics, of emotional and informational dominance, laws, regulations, taxing the power-to-exist away from the people, by denigrating the rights of people and their legislature (Congress),…etc. But the domain is too large for such control. He’ll retreat to his words, ignore more and more what is going on…and..as he is doing now, retreat to campaigning, which is nothing but Words.
Has he not stopped the rising of the oceans? Has he not begun to heal the planet? Has he not fundamentally transformed America? How dare you!
It is all rather simple to explain. BHO has a mind filled with leftist dogma. He doesn’t think, he regurgitates. He surrounds himself with people who tell him he is the fairest of them all. When reality intrudes he falls back on what he ‘knows’ which is that he is the bright bulb, the sharpest knife, the most intelligent person in the room. Yet, except for zombies, is it not obvious that we have a severely disturbed narcissist in the WH? The sooner he’s on the lecture circuit and ghost writing a new memoir the better.
“Shuttered” white house? For a second there, I thought it was going to read SCoaMF.
Shorter Michael Ledeen: It’s hard for Obama to win when he already thinks he’s “Winning!”
Among the tragedies of the Obama election is much of what is happeing was predictable. It should have been clear to every adult in 2008 that Obama lacked the moral compass and mental hygiene to say nothing of experience necessary for the job. Perhaps the main cause of his election is that few Americans could envision leadership as vile as Obama’s. Shame on them, he gave more than adequate warning of emotional, moral and mental shortcomings.
This is the true crux of the issue. Many of us saw him as a fake in 2008; the truth was right before our eyes. That was when the “King has no clothes” comments were being made. But many didn’t want to see or hear the truth; so Obama was elected. Those are the people that should worry us!
I personally think that if we had the truth about ourselves revealed to us in one foul swoop; it would destroy us. Obama has had the priveledge of being shown mercy by such greats as Benjamin Netanyahu, in front of the entire world. Didn’t make a dent … yet.
Even the U.N. speech given by Obama was a campaign speech – amazing.
“Just listen to what the Wall Street Journal’s reporters have to say and you’ll see a masterpiece of blithering:”
I’ve said all I have to say about President Obama and I find repetion boring, but let me drop this news flash: Those masters of blithering you refer to are bought and paid by one Rupert Murdoch, who also signs checks for big bucks to all the “fair and balanced” talking dunces on the Fox News Channel with few exceptions.
This guy, Murdoch, was one of the big dogs who bought the Republican nomination for John McCain in 2008 after finally putting a dagger into Mitt Romney’s chest. That of course, lead to the presidency of Barack Obama.
Based on all the free things, like several runnings of his commercials against Obama, and an exclusive appearance on the Hannity show this evening before tomorrow’s debate, it looks very much like Mr. Murdoch has brought another knife to the fight and history is once again about to repeat itself. This time with another cowboy from Texas winning the fight on the wings of the money man.
This result even though, polls still show that “mittens”, not my word but one used by many commenters and detractors of Governor Romney, is at this time still the only announced republican candidate that would defeat Obama in 2012.
Now I repeat myself. Go figure, it’s inexplicable in my little world. Want evidence, do the research. See, connecting a few dots isn’t all that difficult.
Aw, c’mon. At least he’s taking a high hand with those troublesome Mongols:
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/20/7862290-barack-obama-joins-open-government-partnership-for-group-photo
Hey, back off there! Obama’s secret, no one can ever see, censored college records PROVE that he is a genius!!! Sure, he registered as a foreign student and claimed all sorts of advantages as a foreign student. Sure, he went through college as a doper, knowing his ultra-left wing instructors who give the maximum affirmative credit, but that doesn’t mean that the graduates of journalism colleges don’t believe Obama is a genius!!
It may seem a bit of a stretch, but bear with me if you would. Obama’s mindset reminds me of serial killer Ted Bundy.
Bundy thought he was smarter than anyone he’d ever met, in fact smarter than anyone who’d ever lived; he firmly believed in the deepest corner of his soul that he could talk his way into or out of anything, and that he would always win.
He was wrong.
Just look at all the wire service photos of Obama at the UN and at the Clinton Climate confab and tell me the guy doesn’t have a few screws lose…the disconnected grinning with no one else even smiling…the constant imbecilic waving.
I’ve looked at every photo and most videos of Obama for years now and his demeanor is worsening in a bizarre way. He reminds me of Chauncey Gardner in Being There except Chauncey seemed more normal.
He is a walking psych textbook.
I have paid particular attention to his chronic tardiness.
A very “in your face” passive aggressive stunt.
Narcissist, compulsive lying, detached from reality, I wonder what psych drugs his handlers have him on.
Hmmmm. If ‘brilliant’ thoughts repeatedly lead to giant cluster****s, one has to begin questioning the premise that the thoughts are brilliant. That Obama doesnt question it is no surprise to me. What is jaw-dropping is that so many others on the left do not.
As soon as he appeared on the scene, I could see the guy is a dunce. “Under my plan….rates would necessarily skyrocket.”. “We need a civilian defense force….”.”…spread the wealth around…”. I could list moronic quotes from him all day, but any one of them is ample evidence of delusion and intellectual deficiency.
“I know it well, having seen it with my own eyes during the Iran-Contra siege of the Reagan White House 25 years ago, when the president’s men and women concentrated all their energies and all their passions on “saving” the president from what many of them believed was the return of Watergate.”
I wonder where the line is between protecting the president and committing a crime. Operation “Fast and Furious” is a perfect example of this today. This was a major operation and if the president did NOT know about this, then he’s either incompetent (because he couldn’t believe this would ever turn out the way it did) or he has chosen some of the worst administrators in the country.
To say that Eric Holder didn’t know about this is laughable. A major ATF operation that involved shipping hundreds of weapons to another country and Holder didn’t know about it? Janet Napolitano didn’t know about this? A major Justice Department operation that involved the security of the United States and she wasn’t even briefed on it? And Hillary Clinton didn’t know about it? A major Justice Department operation that involved sending weapons to a neighboring country and she wasn’t even informed about it? And when it all went bad, Holder, Napolitano, and Clinton only found out about it through the news?
So if all this was going on and Obama did NOT know about any of it, he’s either the worst administrator that ever lived or he’s a liar. I’ll tend to believe the latter, because he doesn’t strike me as being THAT dumb. And if Holder, Napolitano, and Clinton are lying just to protect Obama, then they are breaking the law, too.
And please, don’t forget that nobody died in Watergate. Here we have one dead American border agent and almost 200 dead Mexicans because of this botched operation. This makes Watergate look like peanuts, and somebody is lying about it.
To be fair, the Obama speech on Libya, now known as the “responsibility to act” speech, had two conditions beyond the suffering of the population that would trigger American action (these conditions were somewhat implicit in the speech); that is our “unique ability” to stop the dictator’s aggression in the near term and the support of a coalition.
Of course, in the speech the American action was only to protect the civilian population, not kill the dictator’s troops, destroy the dictators military infrastructure, etc. but that is a separate issue and anyway, Obama would probably argue (or have a flunky do so) that the targeting of troops, etc. was by the coalition (even though American warplanes actually fired weapons).
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/28/134935452/obamas-speech-on-libya-a-responsibility-to-act
so if it was ok to use our abilities to change the regime in Tripoli, why is it not more so with regard to Damascus and Tehran? And I am not talking about the use of military force, so your quibble does not apply. I’m talking about political and economic support (strike funds, etc).
Because (from the view of the WH), the actions you are talking about do not protect the civilian population- which was the theoretical justification of the Libya action – instead the actions you are talking about have, as their goal, regime change (which was the real goal of the Libyan action but not according to the Responsibility to protect speech). In fact, the WH could argue that the actions you advocate put the civilian population at risk since the dictators would have more reason to kill specific civilians who were in groups that got aid.
listen lord, that’s the same analysis i quoted regarding Syria. the regime in Iran is already killing and torturing at a record rate, and believes that all their enemies and critics are getting foreign aid. the only change would be that we would actually help them.
Your argument is that Assad in Syria and the Mullah’s in Iran are killing people as fast as they can (I presume you mean ‘as fast as they can politically’ since obviously they have the physical means to kill faster) since they are killing at record rates.
It may be that they are killing at record rates (I suppose this means averaged over a year or so since the daily count changes drastically) but the WH would argue that new records would be established if we aided the opponents since the ‘political limit’ to killing opponents (as opposed to the physical limit which would not change) would rise if the US aided the opponents. That is, with the US somewhat on the sidelines, Assad (for example) could get away with killing 3000 a year politically but with the US aiding his opponents, he could get away with killing 6000 a year.
the time is now for a Kurdish Nation
Yes, and then, immediately, for a Baluch Nation beginning with the Pakistan-occupied Baluchistan — and also for an Arabistan (now occupied by Iran). A Turkey, an Iran and a Pakistan intact will always remain anti-West particularly anti-US and anti-Israel. Disintegration of Turkey, Iran, Syria, Iraq and Pakistan is the only solution.
No, I do not expect Turkey, Iran and Pakistan to let the Kurds, the Baluchs and the Arabs of Arabistan go easily; nor am I suggesting American or other friendly ‘boots’ be on the ground.
Yet, just the recognition by the US of the Kurds, Baluchs and Iran-occupied Arabs as Independent and Sovereign Nations will have a shock & awe effect. There are many ways, short of sending American soldiers, to hurt Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, and to help the Kurds, the Balochs and the Arabistanis to get their freedom — and also to help the Iraqi Arabs to maintain their unity and independence, and repulse Iranian encroachments. .
there is something very different about this time. Somehow last time once O beat the Clintons, no small task, we all knew his 2008 victory was inevitable. This time is different. Everyone knows about the teleprompter, everyone has heard his moronic listless speeches. Only the hard-core really believe anything he says. He is a hustler and we all know who and what he is. I would say his re-election chances barring a contrived war or civil strife or a reverse Clinton where someone gets killed to Obamas favor, his reelection chances stand at about 10%. It just isnt going to happen
Remeber that in 2004 the press was hammering Bush and almost succeeded except for the timely death of Regan. they had to let up for a few days, allowing Bush to gather his forces and press to victory. I put nothing below the Democraps
Michael, one thing I would like to direct your attention to. Canada, as well as the United Kingdom are trying to distance themselves from the US. There was a time when the US was the junior partner in the Anglosphere.
As long as the battle that raged between Adler and Dewey continues, and those in the White Office favour the latter, plan “b” is being discussed.
President Obama repeatedly asked members of Congress to pass the American Jobs Act last week. But when no Democrat filed Obama’s bill after he presented it to Congress, a conservative congressman swiped the name for his own legislation.
The American Jobs Act introduced in the House of Representatives looks quite different from the version President Obama outlined in his speech to Congress. Instead of hiking taxes on working Americans to pay for another stimulus, Rep. Louie Gohmert’s (R-TX) legislation offers a tax cut. UPDATE: Gohmert’s bill now has a number. It’s HR 291
I have always maintained the the leaders of the Green movement in Iran are just another manifestation of the Islamic Republic interested in reforms within the frameowrk of an Islamic, Sharia based society with minor cosmetic changes. The following article may or may not be of interest to the readers:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/25/uk-iran-opposition-idUKTRE78O1BB20110925
i think if you read Mousavi’s statements you will see that he is calling for the end of the Islamic Republic.
You will pardon me if over the years I have become somewhat jaded, a natural, and regretable, result of my life experience. I seem to recall a bearded excrement in 1978 singing the songs of secularism, democracy and separation of religion and politics from his perch in Neufle Le Chateau graciously comped for him by Valerie Giscard d’Estaing using funds from his friend’s peanut farm revenues. Moussavi is well aware that those who populate the Green movement want nothing less than an end to the Islamic Republic so the imperative of political expediency compels him to say what needs to be heard by his customers. I hope for the sake of my people that he is genuine. But I will reserve judgment until he turns up his hole cards in a showdown.
Michael,
Thanks for reading Mousavi’s statements carefully and with insight.
I wish the West and the rest of the civilized world make the imprisonment of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi an issue on all levels — and in all international institutions including the UN –, demanding their release and freedom of peaceful political activity as they did in case of Nelson Mandela. I can assure that unlike Mandela, Mousavi will stand on the opposite side of the so-called Third World’s tyrants and anti-Semites.
Also, I wish some circles nominate Mousavi and Karroubi for a joint Nobel Peace Prize. This will boost the morale of Iranian people almost all of whom including the non-Persian regionalists respect and love the above-mentioned two.
I wish Iranians abroad have the courage to openly discard the Pahlavists, the Rajavists, i.e., the Mojahedin-e Khalgh and the Organized Left, coming out in large numbers with the pictures of Mosaddegh as their hero and of Mousavi and Karrubi as their leaders for a new Iran. I as a non-Persian Iranian am ready to give an Iran led by Mousavi & Karroubi another chance.
Sure, why not? Abu Ammar and Jimmy Boy got theirselves one of dem shiny plaques from Handsome Harald as well. Heeee Haw and thawra thawra hatt-an nasr will be in good ompany.
Hack a Day has really been degrading in quality the past few months.. Not only in poorer hacks, but the site itself. On top of the comments not working, not even linking to the correct hack, and the poor descriptions, it just plain looks like shit now.