President Obama held a press conference today and was asked the GOP's current empty leading question. Something to the effect of, "Why aren't you making tougher statements on the election uproar (uprising?) in Iran?"
Obama has stated that giving encouragement to the protesting Iranians would have a negative consequence in that it would give an excuse for the ruling religious leaders to attack the protesters as tools of the "Evil Satan" USA.
Today a few GOP senators where riding their latest lame hobby horse and attacking Obama. CBS Hotsheet on GOP Attack Dogs
I guess they think the US should repeat what Eisenhower did regarding the 1956 revolt in Hungary.
Eisenhower statement on Uprising in Hungary
You may be old enough to remember that Eisenhower's statements were viewed by Russians as giving the Hungarians more rope to hang themselves.
Of course, on the other side of the great moves of the Republican Party, we have the GOP State Department apparently giving a wink and a nod to Saddam attacking Kuwait. April Glaspie and Saddam Hussein
Obama seems to be taking a sensible middle road showing no great desire to repeat great GOP errors and boondoggles no matter how much the GOP noise machine bangs on their empty political garbage cans in the hope that doing the same things over again will produce a different result. Which as you may remember is one definition of insanity.
** Stay tuned for more from the sensible middle--- Doug Wiken
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