Tuesday, October 6, 2009
It's appeasement all the way and the "realists" have come home to roost in a leftist administration. Who would have believed it, but standing up for American values in the international arena seems to have become a "neocon" exclusive product. I'm sure they'd be willing to share the patent if Obama would be willing to buy.
The Administration has [Cut] Off Funding for Iranian Human-Rights Documentation:
I've got to say, even for the Obama administration, this is a real shocker.
The Clinton State Department has decided to cut off all funding for the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), which was compiling lists of protestors imprisoned in this summer's unrest, as well as those who were killed in the crackdown.
IHRDC is what human-rights advocates should be: methodical, precise, and apolitical in their work. And yet, the Obama administration has, without explanation, cut off all federal funding to the group which has consistently fulfilled its mandate...
Of course in the power calculation of an oppressive regime and its oppressed citizens, the math says make nice with the regime and screw the citizens. Math is a soulless science, but politics isn't, and neither are interest politics when they involve a nation, like the United States, that actually stands for something.
Ed Morrissey says "It's a setup for appeasement." It's more than a setup.
And Glenn says They're planning a sellout, and data on what the Iranians are doing to their protesters would make it more embarrassing.. He links Bret Stephens' future history in today's Wall Street Journal. It's plausible.
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First the Iraqis, then Wall Street, then the Auto Industry and now you want us to bail out the Iranians? Screw that!
It's time this country looked after it's own and stop bailing out everybody under the freakin' Sun!