Great idea.
(Via Hot Air)
Great idea.
Moe Lane
PS: See also Gateway Pundit, who has a good deal more in the way of video footage and on-site reporting.
Crossposted to RedState.
Tag: iran
Hot dogs in public, credit-taking in private: the White House’s search for an Iranian domestic strategy.
Gird your loins.
Question: What do these two stories have in common?
Iran Unrest Reveals Split In U.S. on Its Role Abroad
[snip]
Obama’s approach to Iran, including his assertion that the unrest there represents a debate among Iranians unrelated to the United States, is an acknowledgment that a U.S. president’s words have a limited ability to alter foreign events in real time and could do more harm than good. But privately Obama advisers are crediting his Cairo speech for inspiring the protesters, especially the young ones, who are now posing the most direct challenge to the republic’s Islamic authority in its 30-year history.
[Via The Campaign Spot]
US says hot dog diplomacy still on with IranWASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters.
President Barack Obama’s administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
[Via Weasel Zippers, via Hot Air]
Answer: Both demonstrate that the administration’s only real focus on any issue is its effect on domestic policy. Continue reading Hot dogs in public, credit-taking in private: the White House’s search for an Iranian domestic strategy.
My Podcast today with Fausta – 06/22/2009.
(Via, obviously, Fausta’s Blog) Mostly on Iran, and may I be proven wrong on all of it after tomorrow’s press conference. Just don’t ask me if I do anything more than hope.
I think that they’ve fixed the autoload problem on this.
(The book being referenced is You Can Do Anything, Daddy
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Senator McCain, on Neda.
Via Andrew Malcolm.
I don’t regret voting for this man. Just to be clear about it.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
In Iran, the Mob stirs in its sleep.
This is not the Mob in Iran, awakened.
You can tell by the fact that the policemen are still alive at the end of the video. Continue reading In Iran, the Mob stirs in its sleep.
‘Don’t tell me words don’t matter.’ #iranelection
It’s not just us who listen to our broadcasts, you know.
President Obama argued yesterday that there is little difference between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mir-Hossein Mousavi on policies critical to the U.S.
“It’s important to understand that although there is amazing ferment taking place in Iran, that the difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi in terms of their actual policies may not be as great as has been advertised,” the president told CNBC.
Via @allahpundit.
Continue reading ‘Don’t tell me words don’t matter.’ #iranelection
The free ice cream may be a little sparse today.
This is promising to become a thoroughly rotten day in international affairs. See also. And here, of course.
At this point, I got nothing to suggest. Except prayer, of course.
Fiddling as Tehran burns.
[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers. Not to be crass, but I’m doing a pledge drive. On the bright side, that link leads to the Riddler singing, so at least you’ll get your recommended daily dose of surrealism out of it.
Charles Krauthammer, a man who is apparently constitutionally incapable of suffering fools at all (and never mind ‘gladly’), waxed wroth on the implication that the President’s response to the ongoing Iranian crisis was in any way similar to Pope John Paul II’s response to the Solidarity strikers:
The president is also speaking in code. The Pope spoke in a code which was implicit and understood support for the forces of freedom.
The code the administration is using is implicit to support for this repressive, tyrannical regime.
We watched Gibbs say that what’s going on is vigorous debate. The shooting of eight demonstrators is not debate. The knocking of heads, bloodying of demonstrators by the Revolutionary Guards is not debate. The arbitrary arrest of journalists, political opposition, and students is not debate.
And to call it a debate and to use this neutral and denatured language is disgraceful.
DON’T PANIC*.
Twitter is down because it’s overdue for an hour’s worth of scheduled maintenance. They picked this time because it’s late night for Iran. It’ll be back up soon.
Crossposted to RedState.
White House elevates its rhetoric on Iranian election fraud.
Allahpundit has a post up about the White House’s sudden, if guarded escalation of its anti-election fraud in Iran rhetoric – I can’t imagine why we’re suddenly seeing that; can you? – and ended it with this question:
Exit question: How would Saddam be reacting to all this if he was still in charge in Iraq?
The answer to that is actually simple: he wouldn’t be, because this wouldn’t be happening. The people of Iran aren’t stupid; they wouldn’t even flirt with the idea of a civil war if they were still sharing a border with a genocidal, expansionist regime that killed at least 200K of their countrymen in the last war. Saddam Hussein used poison gas in that war, after all. Somebody that vile couldn’t be trusted not to leap on a distracted Iran and start rending. ‘Course, that’s no longer a worry, given that we took the murdering tyrant out and hanged him a while back; not to mention, shooting down his sons in the street like the mad dogs that they were. So now they share a border (for the moment) with the Great Satan, who everybody knows has precisely zero interest in invading them.
Gee. Funny how things work out sometimes, huh?
Moe Lane
PS: Good job, whoever it was in the State Department that told Twitter to keep the lines open.
Crossposted to RedState.