What’s Wrong With Theocracy?
For those with a masochistic tendency, click here to watch Susan Rice, ambassador to the UN, refuse to concur with Mousavi’s charge (via the MSNBC interviewer) that the regime in Iran is illegitimate.
She instead timidly states, in the bestest International Relations 101 way possible, that,
“The political situation in Iran is for the Iranians to work out internally.”
Which is a fine sentiment when applied to a democracy, but not so much with regard to a theocracy that murders those who dare to protest.
So why did Rice refuse to call the mad mullahs illegitimate?
Because, in the short term, the mullahs are going to retain power in Iran. And a central blank of Obama’s acclaimed appeasement policies is talking to the mullahs. So if his administration were to label them illegitimate, he fears that they might be less inclined to sit down and jaw jaw with the Great Satan, which would not be too wonderful for the prestige that Obama so desperately craves.
This, of course, is the most naive train of thought in the history of time and space.
The theocracy in Iran could not care less what word the Obama adminstration does or does not use to categorize them. They are not going to refuse negotiations with the US because their feelings are hurt – they are going to refuse talks because they truly and sincerely hate America, no matter which puppet is dangled in front of them.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:34
Note: HRC doesn’t look happy, nor like a happy camper.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:43
Yep, she’s been remarkably quite over Iran, hasn’t she? Someone’s on a short leash…