Which is to say, what would Reagan do? It seems to me that the counsel he offered with regard to Khrushchev and the Soviet Union in his 1964 convention speech is well worth hearing today with regard to Ahmadinejad and Iran:
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”—Alexander HamiltonIt seems clear to me that we cannot afford to continue our appeasement of Iran; we need to stand up now and tell the ayatollahs that we will no longer enable them in their pursuit of their agenda. We need to stand up, assert ourselves, and take the opportunity to strangle their adventurism while they’re still economically vulnerable to such an approach; we can cut them off at the knees by doing everything possible to bring crude oil prices down, and then cutting off their supply of refined fuel (gasoline, diesel, kerosene), and we need to do just that. We cannot afford to keep selling them the rope with which they intend to hang us.“Where then is the road to peace? Well, it’s a simple answer after all: you and I have the courage to say to our enemies there is a price we will not pay—there is a point
beyond which they must not advance.”—Ronald Reagan
Came here via a link on your most recent Palin post.
That is another beautiful conservative sermon exhorting us to worship violence.
If only someone important had given us some other way to treat our enemies.
Oh well, I guess the only two options are always going to be liberal appeasement of dictators on the one hand and valiant, selfless conservative liberation on the other.
Sorry, I just had to. I echo other liberal appeasers in saying "Thank God for Barak Obama" with regard to Iran. Because he is not doing what has been proven time and again to be an utter waste of time and lives, he is making it possible for Iran to actually have a revolution. I think he is absolutely right to remain out of the internal conflicts in Iran as much as possible, to take pains to not seem to be meddling with Iran's political affairs, and I think that history will bear out the wisdom of that position, in stark contrast to…well, you know what I'm going to say.