On Obama's Watch, watching evil is all he does about evil.

He would sell out Czechoslovakia to Hitler if he could; since he cannot,he'll sell out others to the forces of darkness: Israel, Georgia, Tibet,(or the constitutionally-mandated Hondurans) and,now, the Iranian rebels. Confronting "bad guys" is not his style ( if he can even tell the difference, or care.)//On Obama's Watch Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 40...after a week of post-Iranian-election presidential mealy-mouthing,...a day after both houses of Congress had passed resolutions condemning the behavior of the Iranian regime, the White House put out a statement from President Obama. It began:...the world is watching....We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions...It ended:
Martin Luther King once said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness...questionable notion that the "international community" believes the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice....The president...apparently believes the government of Iran needed to hear from him that "the world is watching." Why did he suppose the regime was busy shutting down websites and expelling foreign journalists or restricting them to their hotels in Tehran? What the Iranian regime cared about--what the Iranian regime was worried about--was what, if anything, the world would do.The answer, the American president told them, was that the world would do nothing. (Rather different from JFK):...Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty....Our current president promises "we will continue to bear witness." It's quite an evolution....It's not about correcting the injustice....Leon Wieseltier recently noted, "Obama seems to think that there is some force in the admonition that the world is watching; but history plentifully demonstrates that when the world is watching, all the world does is watch." ****The lesson for Hitler, culminating in the Holocaust, was that the world watched the Armenian genocide and did nothing. ****...sometimes the moral universe could use a helping hand, and the American president is uniquely situated to be of assistance.
Unfortunately, action that might actually weaken the Iranian regime seems to be the last thing Obama wants to undertake. ...he's done nothing to help those Iranians who have been seeking..."to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government."...three of Iran's opposition leaders boldly denounced Ahmadinejad's government as illegitimate...But Obama refused to take their side. "The political situation in Iran is for the Iranians to work out internally," said Obama's U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice....Hillary Clinton--...Obama's...marginalized secretary of state--said... "Let's put ideology aside; that is so yesterday." Well, it's increasingly clear that John F. Kennedy's Democratic party--the one that stood for freedom, that acted on behalf of freedom--is so yesterday, too. But..."there is nothing more sweepingly in the interest of the United States in the Middle East than the withering away of the theocracy in Iran." That's not so yesterday....For all of his talk of bearing witness, it's a simple truth Obama will not open his eyes to see. Because if he saw the truth, it would require action. And acting on behalf of justice--as opposed to talking about it--is hard.--William Kristol