Iran: Another Dictator Endlessly Dying

The Obama Administration may have found its breakthrough in dealing with Iran, but not through its diplomatic engagement. Rumors are spreading in and outside of Iran that Supreme Leader Khamenei, who at 70 years old has been known to be in poor health, is in a coma or dead....Khamenei's Demise? Ryan Mauro, Frontpagemag.com, 10/22/09

Let's see. Castro started dying twenty-five years ago. Brezhnev died for almost a decade. Mao Tse-Tung, the mass murdering peasant so loved by the current White House Director of Communications, was believed to be dying for almost twenty years. North Korea's Kim Jong Il has been dying for decades. One suspects that part of the rationale behind Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler in 1936 was an MI6 report that Uncle Adolf was fatally ill. It is always and forever the endless dying of dictators that has been presented as "hope and change" by weak, appeasing leaders in the West. Slapped stupid by the Iranian government in the effort to "reason together" with Teheran's mullahs, now the best the current White House occupant can offer is hope that change will come through yet another endlessly dying dictator?

Not that such wishful thinking is the unique province of the Left. The federal takeover of the medical economy has been dying since last August, at least according to Drudge.

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Iran, North Korea, Russia, China: Happy Days Are Here Again

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (you know that gal married to the Saudi hireling) crawled to Beijing to tell the party bosses that human rights don't matter. Our "relationship" is more important than freedom and human dignity….Beijing's response? A staged military confrontation with an unarmed US Navy vessel; continued screw-America currency cheating; a renewed crackdown on dissidents and, yesterday, a call for a new global currency to replace the dollar…Obama’s Foreign Failures, Ralph Peters, NY Post, 3/26/09

Emulating a hero takes many forms. For all his talk about Lincoln, Obama’s mentor-in-spirit for a long time has been JFK. He even hired octogenarian Ted Sorensen, who wrote JFK’s inaugural address, as a consultant. Getting Uncle Teddy's endorsement was a crowning glory of his 2008 campaign.

Emulating JFK’s foreign policy seems to be his administration’s version of hero worship of a more woeful kind. While JFK fumbled into the Bay of Pigs and nearly got us into World War III in his first eighteen months in office, the President has embarrassed the Prime Minister of Britain (not necessarily a bad thing – see YouTube link below); run pleading to Iranian mullahs, who responded with scornful laughter; temporized on North Korea, which has responded with a threat of war; offered to re-start relations with Moscow, which promised to re-arm the Red Army and modernize its missile force; and offered to open broad contacts with Cuba. Fidel responded with another lecture. A basketball player ought to know that you can’t negotiate with an opposing, shooting guard. If you don’t defend against his shot, he’ll score.

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