The news story:
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called the U.S. president inexperienced, compared him unfavorably to President George W. Bush and suggested he apologize for “interfering in Iran’s affairs.”
“Do you think that this kind of behavior is going to solve any of your problems? It will only make people think you are someone like Bush,” the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.
“You are at the beginning of your way and you are gaining experience, and we do not wish the scandals of the Bush era to be repeated during your term of office,” the Iranian leader said.
President Obama, who has been in office for five months, has been treading a careful line on Iran, which has seen two weeks of street demonstrations following a disputed presidential election there.
To be entirely fair to President Obama, we have to treat this CNN story with care – after all, we learned post-liberation in Iraq that CNN trimmed its reporting about Saddam in a pro-Saddam manner in order to retain access…there can be no doubt that something similar to this is happening in Iran, today. Thus, this might be part of some careful script of the Iranian government to provoke a certain response in the United States.
But, that aside, the lesson to be learned here is that the United States is the whipping-boy of all regimes in the world that are bent on evil. It is the nature of things – as the beacon of liberty in the world (and, liberals, that beacon never has been, is not and never will be such liberal utopia’s as Germany, Canada and Sweden – it is and always will be the United States of America…unless you get your way) thugs of all types around the world perceive us as the primary enemy. This is because of what we are, not because of what we do…be President Bush calling Iran part of the “Axis of Evil”, or be Obama kowtowing to Islamist thugs by carefully referring to Iran as the “Islamic Republic of Iran”, its all the same…because there is even the remotest chance that America will come down on the side of domestic freedom-fighters, the thugs see us and act towards us as an enemy.
In the end, the US might as well come down hard on the side of freedom fighters – even at some considerable risk – because we might as well be damned by thugs for doing what they fear most, when we’re going to be damned by them no matter what. By doing the right thing – all the time – we will always place ourselves in a stronger position. Additionally, the more we clearly come down on the side of liberty the more encouraged will be all freedom-fighters, and thus the pressure for liberty will continually increase around the world.
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