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AND CARRYING A CROSS." -SINCLAIR LEWIS

Friday, June 19, 2009

Something Someone Else Said

"The error in 1956 was on the part of Radio Free Europe, in holding out to Hungarian resisters the false hope that the West would or could intervene on their behalf. It would be similarly cruel and immoral to give Iranian demonstrators the false idea that we in the democratic world can offer them anything more than our sympathy. We can’t. We will not invade Iran, and nothing else we do will have much of an effect on the behavior of a regime fighting to retain its hold on power. The demonstrators in Iran must know that they have to win the struggle for a fair election on their own, and must be prepared to face the consequences of failure. And they do know this. That is precisely what makes them so courageous. It would be stupid and irresponsible of the US to use their struggle as an occasion for ineffectual rhetorical grandstanding, and fortunately President Obama, unlike our last President, seems able to resist the temptation." -Matt Steinglass, Accumulating Peripherals

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2 comments:

Joe "Truth 101" Kelly said...

That's a great point about Hungary JBW. I'm surprised our "genius" friend I Ain't Got Non Brains didn't think of it.

JBW said...

The point is obviously not original to myself T101 but thanks just the same. And I get the feeling that IAGNB doesn't do much thinking at all.