Sunday, June 21, 2009

Supreme Leader Obama

"Supreme Leader" Obama is considering having polite discussions with his counterpart, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran. To show his compassion for the different cultural norms of the Ayatollah, Obama will bow to him, just as he did to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia when they met a few months ago. Although the US President is not allowed to bow to the Queen of England, to show that the US is no longer a vassal of England, this restriction does not apply to the multi-cultural rulers of backward Muslim countries.
The Obama Administration has been curiously quiet for a supposedly liberal outfit, maintaining silence while the crowds of Iranian protesters gather in the streets of Tehran to protest the "stealing" of the election by Pres. Ahmedinejad, the mouthpiece of the Supreme Leader. Apparently Obama is indifferent to what is going on in Iran, and sees no difference between the opponent Hossein Mousavi and Ahmedinejad, even though the crowds in Iran do see a major difference. Although the US is supposed to stand for democracy, as it did under Pres. Bush, now it no longer does. The main thing it stands for is having "dialog" with whatever bloody dictator happens to be in power. This is the liberal viewpoint on international affairs.
Meanwhile Khamenei spoke extensively at his Fri "prayer" meeting at Tehran University before an obviously selected audience, that included Ahmedinejad. Whenever it was appropriate they broke into organized shouts of "death to America, death to Britain, death to Israel!" He especially noted Britain as "the most treacherous of Iran's enemies." During his speech, that was predominantly political and had as far as I could tell no religious content whatsoever, he railed against those who would do harm to Iran, including those disrupting the election process, and those "foreign" elements who are taking advantage of this. By that he meant the US, UK and Israel -at which point the organized chanting began again. And this is the man (the actual leader of Iran) that Obama wants to have dialog with?
Oh and I forgot, one other liberal viewpoint is that Israel must stop all "natural growth" in settlements in the West Bank, in case they might one day be part of a negotiation with the Palestinians. To appease the Palestinians it is not enough that Israel freeze the construction of all new settlements and remove "outposts," Israel must have "zero population growth" on existing settlements. That means no babies (no sex), no expansions of houses, no building of new houses, no kindergartens, no schools, not even sheds or outhouses! For a superpower to have such a nitpicking policy is embarrassing. Now I wish someone could explain to me how this policy will enhance the likelihood that Iran will stop developing nuclear weapons, how it will induce the PA to reenter negotiations with the Netanayhu Administration in Israel and how it will somehow lead to peace. I suppose the "Supreme Leader" Obama knows, but if he does he is not telling us, why should he after all, Supreme Leaders lead by fiat.

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