Obama's Silence On The Iranian Election

Even granting my dim view of Obama and his cherished moral code (altruism), I'm surprised he has not said something publicly on what is going on in Iran.

I would have at least expected a wishy-washy pragmatic statement about how we must respect the sovereign rights of those who promote international jihad and wish us death, as do the Iranian hard-liners, thus selling the protesters down river, morally speaking. The fact that he has said nothing is both a moral failure and a political failure.

The moral failure is that Obama does not value the struggle of individuals to throw off the yoke of the state. This I expect, because Obama does not value individual freedom, and therefore does not defend such protesters abroad, or free markets at home. He is an unabashed advocate of the idea that we must subjugate all personal concerns to the greater needs of society. Therefore it is perfectly natural for him to stand by and watch an authoritarian government crush protests and continue its reign of suppression of the individual.

The political failure is that it shows him to be a man of inaction, who if he acts at all, will only do so when goaded into it by public opinion. For this reason, I expect him to issue the above lukewarm statement eventually, only if the degree of public disapproval reaches a certain level.

Either way, this is not the type of man I want leading our country.