Honestly, Obama
"In particular, I would like to speak directly to the people, and..." Well, you can't. The Islamist theocracy will not permit you to. Iranian state television simply did not broadcast your heartfelt speech inviting reconciliation. Although it's possible that Iranian Internet users may find it somewhere, it won't be on YouTube, since the government blocks that, too.You're an Internet, populist president, to be sure. But you're speaking to a stone-age mentality, that's for certain. And you don't appear, in your preoccupation with human rights and speaking directly to those concerned, to realize that you are rational and they are not. You have opened the floodgates of accusations to once again wash over America from an irate Tehran, lecturing your country on human rights abuses.
The "new day" in relaxed relations of which you so movingly speak exists in your mind; there is no prospect in the very near future of a "new day" dawning between the rabidly Islamist government of Iran and the newly-thawed attitudes of the United States of America. You have not, it would seem, seriously read the history of Islam's burning desire to conquer the West; from its inception to the present.
The last century's brief interregnum in the clash between East and West, Islam and Christianity, the faithful and the kuffars has been re-joined. It moved itself forward once again when Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini returned from exile in France in 1979 to overthrow Shah Reza Pahlavi and launch the Iranian Revolution, installing said Khomenei as Supreme Leader.
You know, the year when the Republican Guards and fanatical Islamist student leaders breached the walls of the American Embassy in Tehran and held 66 American diplomats hostage, 52 of whom were held in captivity for an excruciating 444 days, while Iranian revolutionaries screamed "Death to America!" and Jimmy Carter's hostage rescue mission flopped so humiliatingly?
Well, President Obama, Tehran is not impressed with the magnanimity of your free gesture of conciliation. "The American administration has to recognize its past mistakes and repair them as a way to put away the differences", according to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, once one of those student revolutionaries. Ready to apologize abjectly to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei now?
Go to it, Mr. President.
Labels: Middle East, Technology, Terrorism, United States
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, March 22, 2009
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