New York Young Republican Club » Foreign Policy http://nyyrc.com Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:52:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Timid and Passive http://nyyrc.com/2009/06/24/timid-and-passive/ http://nyyrc.com/2009/06/24/timid-and-passive/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:59:26 +0000 Khalil A. Haddad http://nyyrc.com/?p=2623 This is truly an embarrassment.  The response and near silence of the Obama administration towards the events in Iran over the past several days is shameful.  Our concern with the “tenor and tone” of Mullah Khamenei’s threats laying the responsibility of the “bloodshed and chaos” on protesters was an invitation for the regime to exert it’s muscle against the confrontation to tyranny.  And now we are “appalled and outraged by the threats, the beatings and imprisonments” on those who seek freedom and democracy despite the administrations public declaration of Iran’s sovereignty and their pursuit of a Mid-East policy with words and a limp hand.

This is one crisis we cannot afford to waste.  If the United States does not stand firmly resolute with the Iranian people, as we did with the Lebanese in 2005 and with the Iraqi’s during past years, then who will?  If we become too concerned in walking on a diplomatic tight rope with an enemy, then what leadership do we provide?  Moments ripe for revolution come to so few throughout the corse of human history.  Iran has been blessed with such a moment and we must bear with it’s people.  Let us speak and so do as men and women that are to be judged by the liberty we have inherited.

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