http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/06/should-obama-take-sides-in-iran.html ... for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:43:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/06/should-obama-take-sides-in-iran.html/comment-page-1#comment-6793 No Easy Choices in Libya | All That Is Necessary… Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:03:36 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=779#comment-6793 [...] Administration say forthrightly that the man should go.  (But where was that resolve during the thwarted Iranian revolution in [...] [...] Administration say forthrightly that the man should go.  (But where was that resolve during the thwarted Iranian revolution in [...]

]]> http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/06/should-obama-take-sides-in-iran.html/comment-page-1#comment-6130 What Should the U.S. Root for in Egypt? | All That Is Necessary… Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:09:50 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=779#comment-6130 [...] much to criticize.  This is not  the good-versus-evil riots in Iran in 2009, when it took Obama five embarrassing days to unambiguously side with the protesters over a regime that has been at war with us since 1979.  [...] [...] much to criticize.  This is not  the good-versus-evil riots in Iran in 2009, when it took Obama five embarrassing days to unambiguously side with the protesters over a regime that has been at war with us since 1979.  [...]

]]> http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/06/should-obama-take-sides-in-iran.html/comment-page-1#comment-983 Obama Pays for Gates-gate in the Rasmussen Poll | All That Is Necessary... Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:58:44 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=779#comment-983 [...] Obama positive marks for continuing President Bush’s policies on Iraq and Afghanistan. (Iran, not so much, although he eventually decided which side to back.) But I’m opposed to pretty much [...] [...] Obama positive marks for continuing President Bush’s policies on Iraq and Afghanistan. (Iran, not so much, although he eventually decided which side to back.) But I’m opposed to pretty much [...]

]]> http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/06/should-obama-take-sides-in-iran.html/comment-page-1#comment-860 The Perilous Implications of Bush’s Third Term :All That Is Necessary… Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:24:46 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=779#comment-860 [...] initially responded to globally televised evidence of the regime’s  evil by voicing “deep concern” while maintaining neutrality between the regime and the [...] [...] initially responded to globally televised evidence of the regime’s  evil by voicing “deep concern” while maintaining neutrality between the regime and the [...]

]]> http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2009/06/should-obama-take-sides-in-iran.html/comment-page-1#comment-835 The Election Was a Sham — I Hope the Revolt is Not :All That Is Necessary… Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:10:20 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/?p=779#comment-835 [...] Time to pick a side, Mr. President.  I don’t buy the idea that the Iranian protesters would somehow be undermined if Obama expresses support for democracy.  It may once have made pragmatic sense to try to make nice with the theocracy, but only because the regime’s power was unquestioned.  Now there’s an opposing force within the country. [...] [...] Time to pick a side, Mr. President.  I don’t buy the idea that the Iranian protesters would somehow be undermined if Obama expresses support for democracy.  It may once have made pragmatic sense to try to make nice with the theocracy, but only because the regime’s power was unquestioned.  Now there’s an opposing force within the country. [...]

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