“I will argue that the Iranian regime is now on the way out. Whatever impetus it had in 1979 has long since been overtaken by corruption and cynicism. The global recession has pulled the economic rug from under its feet. A rival center of Shi’ite power has risen in Iraq. It has overextended itself in Lebanon. The Islamic Revolution has had stroke under its turban. But the difference is that President Obama, unlike Reagan, is determined to yoke himself to a corpse. He is making his pact with a world that is dying and ignoring the world that is waiting to be born. Obama is choosing the wrong side of history. This is not realism, but a kind of idiotic cynicism; a sort of deep stupidity that only the very educated are capable of committing.”

The question is, Wretchard, WHY?

What motivates his type to do this? I agree with the premise that they are largely overeducated and underintelligent (or at least under-wise) fools – the ‘cream’ of the NPR-listening crop.

But there has to be a ‘why’ beyond those explanations. What is their ultimate goal in hitching their star to a train going off a cliff?

And if for some reason the regime in Iran falls and an even slightly better one takes its place, will not Obama and his followers and handlers calim credit, regardless of whether or not they were the agent of said change?