Her Name Was Neda: A Generational Chance for Freedom
by Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI)
Her name was Neda. In Farsi, it means “the voice.” True to her name, she loved music; sought freedom; and she’s dead – shot down in the streets by the Iranian regime’s state sanctioned murderers. She must not have died in vain.
Today, Iranians and Americans face a generational chance for freedom – one that ensures a rogue regime’s implosion prevents a nuclear confrontation.
Regrettably, our president’s “post-American” foreign policy presumes talk can thaw the murderous mullahs’ hearts and attain a “grand bargain” for peace in our time; consequently, while Iranians demanded their freedom from a barbarous regime, the president vapidly opined: “It is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be… We respect Iranian sovereignty.”
Then, as the crisis escalated, the president optimistically noted:
“You’ve seen in Iran some initial reaction from the supreme leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election… And my hope is – is that the Iranian people will make the right steps in order for them to be able to express their voices, to express their aspirations.”
Tragically, the supreme leader’s deep concern drove him to step on the throats of pro-democracy demonstrators, like Neda.
Next, on June 20th, the president stated, “The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.” It was painfully evident just how far behind them he stood: “The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil for those forces inside Iran who would love nothing better than to make this an argument about the United States.”
With these contradictory statements of support and appeasement, the president returned to square one: “The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.”
In truth, the Iranian people have already judged the regime and found it wonting. The supreme leader, his cleric cronies and their puppet government have never respected the dignity of the Iranian people or governed through consent. This is why the regime stole the election and shoots peaceful, pro-democracy demonstrators. Implying otherwise mocks the Iranians risking and losing their lives for liberty.
As for the claim that American “meddling” in support of the demonstrators plays into the mullahs’ hands, the Iranian regime will claim this regardless, for as our president noted, “That’s what they do.”
Yet, what matters is not what the regime says about America, but what the demonstrators think about America. Presently, brave Iranians watch as our president still holds an open hand to the regime that opened fire on them…that opened fire on Neda. This is the passive, disastrous policy of Jimmy Carter that led to the rise of this rogue regime; not the courageous policy of Ronald Reagan that led to the demise of an evil empire.
The surest, safest termination of Iran’s nuclear weapons program and support of terrorism is to hasten this fanatical tyranny’s collapse by supporting its people’s liberty. Taking its rightful place amongst the community of free nations, a democratic Iran will necessarily realize and reverse the insanity of this terrorist regime’s homicidal obsession with nuclear weapons. Thus, for their liberty and our security, the United States and the world must do everything in our power to further the Iranian demonstrators’ sacred claim to freedom. We know Neda did.
Further, in the grand strategy of our War for Freedom over terrorism, how we aid pro-democracy Iranians’ will remind the world who we are – we are Americans: the revolutionary children of freedom who have lived and died defending our liberty and extending it to the enslaved and oppressed. We will do no less today in support of our Iranian brothers and sisters.
Today, Neda’s voice calls to our consciences and warns that the fate of Iranians’ liberty is entwined with the fate of Americans’ security. We must not miss this generational chance for freedom – again one that ensures a rogue regime’s implosion prevents a nuclear confrontation; and that Neda and all liberty’s martyrs shall not have died in vain. As Americans, we must seize this moment and help Iranians seize their freedom.
That’s what we do.
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Mr. McCotter, I can't tell you how happy I am to see you here. I've been waiting for someone to put words to the terrible images I've seen on TV of Neda's death and I can think of no one better to articulate the horror of what happened to this young woman, and the travesty that has been our President's handling of the situation. Thank you.
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Biden said that in six months, Obama would be tested. But I don't think it is only a military type crisis that can be a test. I believe that it can be a moral one. And Obama has failed. He failed Neda and all the others killed. In a time when he needed to be leader of the free world, Obama was silent. All he needed to do was say that he condemns the current regime for its actions regarding the senseless killing of their citizens and the the United States of America believe in civil rights and liberties for all. Just like Reagan did in 1981 for the people of Poland. That is all the man had to do. Stand up and say this was wrong and should not continue.
Instead, the President voted present with his silence, more concerned about ice cream, swatting flies and the worship of his main stream media sycophants. Of course, next he will see that military test. Because time and again, he has proven that he does not have the moral nor internal fortitude to make the decisions. All he cares about is the consolidation of his own personal power and his messianic rock star status. So when Al-Qaeda finally gets its hands on a Pakistani nuke and comes over our porous southern border and turns Anytown USA into a pile of radioactive cinders, will his adoring throng then realize the mistake they have made in helping bring this man to power? One can only hope.
Rest in peace Neda, you are the catalyst dear.
Forntually, I think the tide is turning and at least the moderates who voted for O are now starting to see him for what most of us already knew what he was and is.
WOW. Thank you for that.
The word eloquence has been used a lot lately. Here is an example of what eloquence REALLY is:
"we are Americans: the revolutionary children of freedom who have lived and died defending our liberty and extending it to the enslaved and oppressed"
Palin / McCotter 2012!
Indeed, Øbama's record of being 'present' instead of actively seeking the moral high ground manifested itself again this past weekend. A surprise it isn't. As an Illinois senator in 1997, Øbama voted "present" on two bills (HB 382 and SB 230) that would have prohibited a procedure often referred to as partial birth abortion. He also voted "present" on SB 71, which lowered the first offense of carrying a concealed weapon from a felony to a misdemeanor and raised the penalty of subsequent offenses.
In 1999, Øbama voted "present" on SB 759, a bill that required mandatory adult prosecution for firing a gun on or near school grounds. The bill passed the state Senate 52-1. Also in 1999, Øbama voted "present" on HB 854 that protected the privacy of sex-abuse victims by allowing petitions to have the trial records sealed. He was the only member to not support the bill.
In 2001, Øbama voted "present" on two parental notification abortion bills (HB 1900 and SB 562), and he voted "present" on a series of bills (SB 1093, 1094, 1095) that sought to protect a child if it survived a failed abortion. In his book, the Audacity of Hope, on page 132, Øbama explained his problems with the "born alive" bills, specifically arguing that they would overturn Roe v. Wade. But he failed to mention that he only felt strongly enough to vote "present" on the bills instead of "no."
And finally in 2001, Øbama voted "present" on SB 609, a bill prohibiting strip clubs and other adult establishments from being within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, and daycares.
So when it comes to the value of human life, Øbama is 'present' only as a bystander, while we need a leader.
Thaddeus McCotter: Now why couldn't this eloquent, decent, intelligent man be Speaker of the House? He puts to shame the pathetic, corrupt regime now in power.
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Rep. Thaddeus McCotter is truly one the most gifted orators in the Republican party. This speech helps to put the Iran situation in terms that Americans can relate to: Freedom.
The GOP needs more good men like Thaddeus McCotter. Needs them desperately.
I hate to break it to you, but most democratic countries have nuclear weapons. What exactly makes you believe that Iranian reformists do not want to continue the nuclear program?
Thaddeus McCotter, that's a great name for a President.
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Thaddeus is the ONLY decent man representin' us gun clingin', bible totin' rednecks here in the once Great Lakes State of Michigan. Love him on Redeye.
Bravo, Bravo, Bravo
as i ramrod my way through life, neda's images, the devastating and the brilliant, causes a stillness within me that speaks to the supreme sacrifice of those who have gone before in the name of freedom.
indeed, may her death not have been in vain.
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Auntie once again rears her ugly thoughtless head.
It's a time for:
A time for mourning.
A time for freedom.
A time for hope and change for the suppressed people of Iran.
A time for trolls to shut the fark up and go back under your bridge.
Not Over.
"Yet, what matters is not what the regime says about America, but what the demonstrators think about America. "
That's not what President Obama seems to believe. In fact at the press conference this morning, just minutes after saying that he was being careful with his statements because of what the leaders of Iraq might do with them he said:
"And, frankly, a lot of them [Iraqis who want their voice to be heard] aren't paying a lot of attention to what's being said on Capitol Hill, and probably aren't spending a lot of time thinking about what's being said here."
Is he really that naive? Does he not notice that many of the signs at the protests are in English? Does he not understand that every person in the world who yearns for freedom looks to us, the great beacon of freedom in the world, for encouragement, inspiration and guidance?
And while we are on the subject, is he really naive enough to also believe that the leaders of Iraq are motivated by what the "world community" thinks of them? He seemed to be relying upon that belief quite a bit this morning.
Thaddeus is proof positive that a conservative can not only win, he carries the day with his rapier like wit. He jousts with the best on red eye, and shows that a conservative needn't be a crusty moneygrubber that molests owls in the middle of the night. Indeed, if we could garner the mold and elect them, this world not might be so dangerous tonight. RIP Neda. May your voice electrify the cause of freedom.
I am with Bosch. Bravo, and Thank You! Eloquently stated.
So you Republicans are going to try and run with THIS? Pathetic…
This guy is a pandering toadie who is using a horrific tragedy to boost his party… In other words, it's typical Republican BS.
He needs to be kicked out after this naked attempt to tie a tragic death to the ridiculous GOP agenda.
They've got my vote!
You should watch him on 'Red eye'. He's got a great dry wit about him.
We as a nation need to stay out of this. Obama is right to not go in "guns a-blazin'" like the Cons would have…
YES! A sure ticket to FAILURE… Please do
Saddly, to THE ONE, it is.
Oh please buzzyboop… GET OFF OF IT.
That nonsense is SOOOOOOO 2008. You lost, get over it.
God bless you for this post, Mr. McCotter.
I wish others in the house and senate, both parties, would find their voice so strong to make a stand.
Obama: "present"
I for one would like to know how it is a comment can be "deleted by the administrator" the instant you hit "send". That would be nice to know.
…but since THIS one went up, I'll ask again with more nuance: Can I take the now WEEKS worth of calls for the President to make some essentially meaningless "end-of-a-Jerry-Bruckheimer-movie" declaration of macho feel-goodness in the direction of Iran to mean that the question of whether or not no longer having to "back up" Bush would cure "conservatives" of their disasterous interventionist streak has been answered in the negative?
To Planet_Hero:
I am NOT a republican…
Never have been.
I'll say it though just like a good libtard so you might understand it better…Shut the Fark up toddie.
Not Over.
I find it appalling that not only is barry not standing up for the beliefs that truly make America what it is, both on our shores as well as the shores of Iran, he still thinks that appeasement and dialogue will solve the problems of the world. HEY BAMBI !!!!!! wake up!!!! when I was growing up, I was viciously beaten by bullies. daily. for years. My parents told me that if I ignored them, they'd go away…never happened. It wasn't till I broke my wrist knocking 3 teeth outta a bully's mouth that the violence stopped. The mullahs are scared. they know that if they lose, they have no retirement plan. they'll end up like Mussolini. Hung on a street corner, with his face pounded in by little old ladies. We need to stoke the fires of their fear. We need to support those that aspire to repeat our OWN fight for INDEPENDENCE. What these people are fighting for is not for a re-vote, but or the destruction of the Islamic Regime in Iran… That has a tremendous domino effect… hamas, hezbollah, syria, North korea, etc etc…
Neda… You and Your Name have entered the Hallowed Halls of Valhalla. Sleep Sweet Darling Sleep Sweet.
Hey planet_herpes, you contribute nothing to everything. Go giggle to yourself until you start crying again, I'm sure your Mom will help you out with that, like she always does.
Well said, Congressman McCotter.
You make me proud to be an American.
Thank you.
And you are a sad excuse for a human being who needs to be put out into the trash to be collected and deposited into a maggot heap.
I'd say you're an idiot, but it would be so redundant after reading your post.
So, as mature revolutionary children ourselves, isn't it our elder duty to allow these nascent revolutionary children to come to terms with their own revolution as we did? What is a revolution but a revolt from within. It's not our place to interfere with their destiny. Let their revolution grow on its own terms or let it fade. This is not the time to impose our will. Let their revolution grow to an actual revolution, if that is what it is meant to be. If it is to grow from what it is now, it can't be because we stoked it in hopes of bringing forth our idea of democracy in Iran.
What did we do for the Chinese? The Ugandans? The Georgians?
Video: Her name was Neda
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So do we wait til after Jerusalem or Tel Aviv glows in the dark?
Plus, "idiot" is such a big word. I'm not sure Planet Zero can process any words that large.
MovieBob,
How can the events that are transpiring actually strengthen your misguided logic?
Do you really think that….
A)The Iranian people would be inspired to do this if it were not for the fact that they see democracy gaining traction on either side of them? All thanks to the United States and no thanks to the liberal members of our government and society.
B)Anti-Americanism and "disastrous intervention" are realities and not the invention of our enemies and those who seek to oppress their people? Even with a completely weak, timid government who refuses to, even in words, support the ideals of freedom and democracy, the ruling dictators of Iran are blaming the West and the United States. So this time they are full of it, but all the other times it was true?
C)The current posture and plan of our government is the right one? When has this ever gone well for us? Name one time when the United States successfully negotiated with tyrants, dictators, murderers and liars.
And sure, bring up how "The U.S. back Saddam and Bin Laden" blah, blah, blah…but that just proves my point. It delayed the battle, but ultimately the enemies of liberty have to be fought.
Straightforward, moral clarity is the only way to go.
If the GOP agenda is to support liberty and freedom around the world, then okay…good agenda.
What is YOUR agenda? What is Obama's? What is the liberal vision for the world and America?
Crickets….crickets….crickets…..I'll wait until you have a chance to take a poll on what you should say to get back to me.
Clown.
Because he and his party have done nothing but chastise the current administration while offering no other real option since they are smart enough and sufficiently well-versed in history to know that there is nothing to do at this point.
Oh, to answer your question, constitutionally-speaking, because the minority party doesn't pick the Speaker of the House. No matter how eloquent or decent.
That "nonsense" is Obama's record. The truth hurts, doesn't it?
Yes, we lost an election. But you sold your soul for political correctness.
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Leigh, nice comments earlier in response to "nickname". For some reason I couldn't reply there — all my comments were being instantly deleted, but I wanted to say that you did a great job outlining all of the relevant points.
Also, nice post here — I concur.
So you want to murder a bunch of people in real-life based on your imagination? What could possibly go wrong
Yeah right. Get back to us in 2010 when Lowbama's poll numbers are in the 20's, and we'll talk failure.
"Name one time when the United States successfully negotiated with tyrants, dictators, murderers and liars."
I don't recall ever saying we ought to be negotiating over this. I don't think we should be engaging it AT ALL, because in this particular case any "help" we give will only make things worse.
I'M WITH the Iranian protestors, I think they're doing something thats been a long time in coming, and I want them to SUCCEED. On this point, I imagine we agree. Our point of contention is the methodology. My read of the situation – taking into account the current geopolitical makeup of the region, the history of similar events, etc. – is that "aid" from us will only make their success LESS likely, by uniting the Muslim World against them and giving the regime carte-blanche to crush them.
If we try to help, these people will be massacred. That is my reading of where we are. It is wholly possible that I am incorrect, but as of yet I am not persuaded.
Oh please VincentV… What do YOU contribute? Nothing but ridiculous attacks on ME, that's what.
MY post has relevance to the discussion, whereas yours is nothing but another right-wing smear attempt against me. That, and you, are pathetic.
Looks like I got it RIGHT ON THE HEAD yet again… Else these BABIES wouldn't be crying like they do
So now the truth proves you are an idiot? That, my dear, is IDIOT thinking.
You might want to get your brain levels checked out… They seem a bit LOW.
No, I know what the word means… I'm not some toothless hillbilly who says "Idjit"
Oh please Leigh Scott… You need to pay better attention.
Let me summarize: Our agenda is to prevent and repair the damage that you GOP CLOWNS do to America, bring our nation into the world (instead of becoming a Pat Robertson Theocracy like you want) and work towards environmental harmony, socio-economic justice, racial equality, and CHANGE from the neanderthal ideology of the Right.
Is that too complicated for you?
Freedom — that's what we do.
Right on, Congressman! Good to hear SOMEONE has balls in Washington. Wish that condition were more contagious. For the world, for all of us. The signs they hold are in English — they know we're watching. Regime change won't solve they're/our problems, but it'll be a start. "The disastrous passive foreign policy of Carter' indeed.
Please continue kickin' ass in Congress.
Ah, the "you got angry so I'm RIGHT" claim.
Sadly for you, the more likely answer is people get angry because you're acting like an abrasive twit.
And no, I don't think the possibility that you're some parody is going to let you off the hook.
…and you've devolved to "I know you are but what am I?" as a defense?
Perhaps you should change your handle to "Pee Wee" or similar?
Is that too complicated for you?
Nope. You seek to demonize the people who disagree with you and use that as an excuse to crush them.
Same old, same old.
@ Anti –
Yes, we want to murder innocent Iranians, you dumba##.
Pay attention, for once.
Nobody wants to go to war with Iran. Iranian people are not the problem. It's the government .
Pay attention to the words coming out of Kotter's mouth not the voices you hear in your head.
Talk about an imagination.
You're a disgrace to trolls everywhere.
I can think of another Thaddeus who would be proud of this speech: Anti-Slavery Representative Thaddeus Stevens.
Thank you Congresman McCotter.
Troll Day @ Big Hollywood. Just more evidence that their messiah is crashing and burning and they're getting scared. I don't blame them. After all, the criticisms of Obama during the campaign are coming to fruition rather quickly.
Obama thinks that he can bring peace to the Middle East by demonstrating to Iranian regime that he won't do them any harm; what they're reading from him is that he CAN'T do them any harm. The murder of innocents like Neda is evidence of their contempt for his impotence.
Help always takes time, comes in a variety of ways and has different costs.
When the colonies revolted against the King George III, they did not do it entirely alone. Baron von Steuben was sent by Germany to help the Continental Army drill and train soldiers. A French nobleman, Marquis de Lafayette, became a Major General under Washington. These are just a couple examples, there are lots more.
The US has historically helped emerging democracies, even when they weren't in the midst of shooting style revolutions. This help has always required a strategic interest for our country. It is a misnomer to say nations have "friends". People in nations create friendships across borders, but ALL nations have only "interests". So while we do not help every nation in every instance, the US has always tried to assist where it has an interest. No one has an interest (a stake) in pouring money down a drain. Many countries may need help for a variety of things, but other nations considering help must see a benefit for that aid.
These interests take a variety of forms: political, financial, strategic. They are not based on emotion and must be weighed against how they affect our interests with other countries. Very briefly addressing the three you list here, starting with China, our help to the Chinese people is our influence with their leadership over trade, as it was with Russia. Plus, fostering more capitalism causes business owners there to want less government interference. President Bush took many opportunities over trade to pressure Chinese leaders about their human rights violations.
As a nation, the US has no significant geopolitical, business, or trading interests in Uganda… thus the perceived "lack" of "help". However, the US has given a lot of humanitarian aid to Uganda.
As for Georgia, President Bush immediately publicly rebuked Russia for their invasion, sent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Tbilisi to show support for the Georgian government, ordered the military to provide humanitarian aid to the Georgian people and solicited help from France and other European countries to bring pressure on the nuclear arsenaled Russians… without provoking them to war. Only after a week of criticism has President Obama condemned violence against the people of Iran, a country in which the US has great interest. So far, he has sent no officials, ordered no aid or even "dialoged" with the Iranian government. What he has done is give a speech that started out about Iran but wound up being about health care.
That's it? That's your argument? There isn't enough substance in your thought process to actually produce even a facsimile of an argument? Come back when you have enough wattage to post something worth troubling with.
Wow. Are you copying these brilliant repartees from the HuffPo Trolls' Little Book of Pointless Comebacks, or are you just a legend in your own mind?
As a pandering toadie, I apologize to you all for sponsoring a thread that clearly attracted troll excrement. Live and learn. You're not a planet_hero, you're a subterranean_skunk!
So you want to murder a bunch of people in real-life based on your imagination? What could possibly go wrong
The strawman you struck might beat you up and send you into another bath in the lava, Anti-kin.
I'm not going to jump all over you, Bob, for this comment.
I would just ask that you do a little research into your" Muslim world" comment as it relates to Iran.
Specifically Persian culture.
Persians are not Arabs
Great point, G.
The signs are in English.
Says it all in technicolor
NO ONE is talking about material aid, MovieBob, so that is a strawman–but I get the sense that you are at least interested in doing the right thing here. To see why an unambiguous rhetorical statement of support from the U.S. President is not, as you cynically put it, a "meaningless 'end-of-a-Jerry-Bruckheimer-movie' declaration of macho feel-goodness," all you have to do is focus a tiny bit of that much remarked-upon liberal empathy from your full-to-bursting heart on the Teheran protesters in the street. Imagine for half a second that you are there with them, risking your life just by showing up, holding up a sign in English. See? That wasn't hard, was it?
RIP Neda…
Sadly, your death is being used by some American politicians for their own gain.
Sad…
I had the pleasure of meeting Rep McCotter he is as down to earth, smart and warm as he appears in these speeches. I think he has a a great and important future if he wants it.
Anti – obviously the voices in your head don't believe in 'real-life' people. But we do. They are real to us and precious. And it's not right that they die. You don't care. But we do. And it's not our 'imagination'. It's our compassion. And in extending freedom to the oppressed, it's also our duty.
I don't know if you noticed. BUT DEMOCRATS ARE IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING! Anything republicans put forward is already DOA! So we'll sit back and let the democrats implode and try to sell that it was all the fault of those damn dastardly republicans.
Minch – I don't think he's naive. Frankly, my dear, I don't think he gives a damn. This President is a person who, imho, is a person who does not now, nor ever has, believed in anything except his own ambition. He certainly does not believe in his country. Thus – why should he care about another? That's not naive. That's nihilism.
Uhh, Stergeye, how can he be a legend in his own mind? That would mean he'd first have to HAVE a mind.
I don't want to murder anybody. I want to defend this nation. Cause Iran with a nuke is a threat against America. And sticking your head in the sand like a little boy won't make that go away.
Well said, Mr. McCotter.
President Obama's double-talk on Iran is no substitute for an unambiguous moral stance, and no amount of spin is going to change that.
It isn't an argument, it's the axelturfer's cut-and-paste generic script:
"You Republicans are demonstrating you're so irrelevant…blah blah" and its twenty variations.
There isn't an argument becuase the intention isn't to argue; it's purely Alynskiite drivel.
A great speech, that points to the real apsect of international policy to the people. A good artcile on BOzo's similar failings regarding Cuba (among other assorted dictatorships)is
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGMzYTBmYWM1...
Wish there were more like you, Rep. McCotter!
Obama Bought The Presidency
Are you even capable of distinguishing religious psychopaths from normal people? Sometimes I can't tell if you're joking.
Thaddeus, if you become a contributor to Big Hollywood, can you do some rock music articles too? Maybe review a New York Dolls show while they're on tour. I'm pretty sure that no congressmen have done that yet.
Well said, Congressman.
Too bad our President thinks our foreign policy should start and end with strongly-worded letters and finger-wagging.
How maudlin. How many republicans cried for the 20,000 children of the 100,000 Iraqi civilians we killed when Bush invaded on lies? Cheesy partisan crap. Every child's death is a tragedy, but even more so when there are thousands of them and they died because of our military invasion based on lies…
I live in Representative McCotter's District. He's pretty awesome.
Ewww… Planet_Zero and Auntie are teaming up, ladies and gentlemen I give you the future.
Let the freedom fighters in the streets of Iran know that we are on their side. We have an opportunity that may not appear for another generation to lance the theocracy of the mad Ayatollahs of Iran. It must not be squandered on the hope that somehow Akmadenanutjob and his present day fascist can be negotiated with and take a position somewhere sort of, “death to America,” maybe they’ll just let us bleed for a while?
I guess you would rather rush in with guns blazing?
Iran is a sovereign country. I guess you would "NUKE them all and let God sort it out?"
Our president is avoiding nuclear war and further destabilization because he is smarter than GW and the Republican war mongers.
You said:Regrettably, our president’s “post-American” foreign policy presumes talk can thaw the murderous mullahs’ hearts and attain a “grand bargain” for peace in our time; consequently, while Iranians demanded their freedom from a barbarous regime, the president vapidly opined: “It is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be… We respect Iranian sovereignty.”
I say: My country never signed up to be "world police".
And one poltician is using her death to further his chances of dealing with the mad mullahs!
Many big words, same little thought: We paid our dues and earned our place, so should they.
But, the French helped us out during our revolution. This nation has seen a successive chain of immigrants, the new building on what those before built, and it has been a very long time since any faced what the very first immigrants to this new land had to overcome. The experienced people will help out the new ones on the job, just enough to get them going without ending up doing their work too.
We were helped. We help. We give others a hand so they can stand up with us. Sure, we can stand back and say it will "mean more" if they "earn it." Well, blood has been spilt, they are working on earning it, they are making the attempt, showing the effort.
So, which outcome do you want? We do nothing and they are crushed, it takes at least a generation until they try again, and those are bitterly aware we did nothing to help those who tried before. We do nothing and they win a long hard battle after overwhelming odds, and have nothing but contempt for us since we could not be bothered to do anything while they were getting killed. Or, we do something significant to help, and at least some will have gratitude towards us.
What should an American do?
But if we're not the "world police" why should we be the "worlds sugar-daddy"? Think about that.
) I can attest to the brilliance of McCotter. This guy is the complete package. Brains, logic, pride of country and even humor. He is someone to watch within the GOP.
As someone from Michigan (I refuse to call myself a Michigander
Way to go Thad!
More to the point, it's probably an attempt to demoralize those who do not support Obama. They're doomed, irrelevant, worthless, etc. and if folk like Planet_Hero keep throwing those words at the people Planet_Hero no-likey maybe they'll believe it.
Or perhaps not.
Amen, 'nuff said
Your post has relevance to nothing but the DUmmies, where you belong. Go away.
I so love the sound of that!
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