Charles Krauthammer ain't buying it. Neither am I:
[Q] - All hangs in the balance. The Khamenei regime is deciding
whether to do a Tiananmen. And what side is the Obama administration
taking? None. Except for the desire that this “vigorous debate” (press
secretary Robert Gibbs’s disgraceful euphemism) over election
“irregularities” not stand in the way of U.S.-Iranian engagement on
nuclear weapons.
Even from the narrow perspective of the nuclear issue, the
administration’s geopolitical calculus is absurd. There is zero chance
that any such talks will denuclearize Iran. On Monday, President
Ahmadinejad declared yet again that the nuclear “file is shut,
forever.” The only hope for a resolution of the nuclear question is
regime change, which (if the successor regime were as moderate as pre-
Khomeini Iran) might either stop the program, or make it manageable
and nonthreatening.
That’s our fundamental interest. And our fundamental values demand
that America stand with demonstrators opposing a regime that is the
antithesis of all we believe.
And where is our president? Afraid of “meddling.” --
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061803495.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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