30th Anniversary of Embassy Seizure: The Rhetoric of Obama
From the Jerusalem Post: Us, them & Obama.
The piece begins with the following:
This week marked the 30th anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the American Embassy in Teheran by followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. To celebrate the 444-day-long violation which came to personify the regime’s sanctimonious thuggery and disdain for international norms, the mullahs organized yet more “Death to…” mass demonstrations.
Astoundingly, tens of thousands of anti-regime marchers piggy-backed on these rallies in Teheran, Tabriz, Isfahan and Shiraz – not to chant insults at America, but to plead: “Obama, Obama – either you’re with them or you’re with us.”
Notes how President Obama marked the occasion rhetorically:
PRESIDENT Barack Obama noted the anniversary by saying, “Iran must choose. We have heard for 30 years what the Iranian government is against; the question, now, is what kind of future it is for.”
But this is a question the president, who this week marked the anniversary of his own election, cannot reasonably forever ask.
And ends with:
WE CLOSE out the week on a glimmer of hope – the certainty that evil regimes don’t have to last forever. Next week marks the fall of the Berlin Wall which led to the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
If only Barack Obama could walk in the footsteps of John F. Kennedy (Ich bin ein Berliner) and Ronald Reagan (“Tear down this wall!”), and provide the moral leadership the civilized world needs to help the people of Iran take down this regime.
The editors of the Jerusalem Post read the same news we do. They’ve also taken the measure of Barack Obama. Their ending paragraphs show that the editors have “a glimmer of hope” that Obama will do the right thing.
After nine months, many of us in the U.S. don’t even have that “glimmer” the J-Post has. We’ve heard too much empty rhetoric over the last nine months to think otherwise.
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