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To: Alighieri who wrote (488908)	6/18/2009 1:50:15 PM
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LIFELINE TO IRAN President Obama missed a big opportunity, Stephen F. Hayes writes at www.weeklystandard.com. "President Barack Obama said Monday he was 'deeply troubled' by the violence in Iran that he's been seeing on television. 'I think that the democratic process, free speech, the ability of people to peacefully dissent - all of those are universal values and need to be respected.' "He was right to say these things. He should have stopped there," Mr. Hayes said. "But Obama rambled on. And out of the four muddled paragraphs that followed, his approach to the Iran Moment became clear. "Under President Obama, our approach to Iran - the world's foremost state sponsor of terror, a rogue regime racing toward nuclear capability - is not only not regime change, it's de facto regime preservation. So he delicately sought to say something that would mute the growing criticism of his silence - 'It would be wrong for me to be silent about what we've seen on the television over the last few days,' he said - without saying anything that could further destabilize the Iranian regime. "It was a missed opportunity. He got bad advice. 'Our hated enemy for 30 years finally comes to a crisis moment,' says Michael Anton, director of communications at the National Security Council during George W. Bush's first term. 'And many of the same people who have been telling us for at least 20 years that the population is largely on our side decide to use this moment not to give the regime a push, or to throw the population a life vest, but to help keep the hated enemy in power.' "

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