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To: koan who wrote (341453)	1/5/2010 1:45:28 AM
From: Neil H	Respond to of 793640

The reason Obama has not responded more strongly is because most of the middle east sees us as the great satans; and most in the middle east hate Israel and by proxy us. So the thinking was, that if we side with the protestors we would actually help the clerics support the contention Ahmadinejad keeps making that the protestors are just tools of America and we are behind it all. The thinking is that it would be better to say out of it rather than give Ahmadinejad more propaganda It is kind of weird but most of the middle east loves America but hates the US government. And you are right in that it is our support of Israel that is a primary cause of their dislike. The Al Qaeda types also are against us due to our support of the ME current governments, which they would like to replace with themselves. There is some sense to what you are saying in our Govt taking a low profile in the Iranian social crises. The current govt is not popular and there is a lot of dissent. Ahmadinejad is continually provoking us because the best way to mobilize the population for him is to have another country (whether Israel or US) attack them. If he can even allude with some credibility that the dissent is foreign inspired, it is to his benefit. Regards Neil