A particularly bad time to trust the U.S. government

****The resisters in Iran had good reason to chant "Obama, you're with us or you're with THEM" because the President passed up a golden opportunity to support democracy AND to foster regime change in Iran, the only peaceful way to avoid nuclear mullahs. Instead, Obama took the occasion to reassure the REGIME in Iran that we had no thoughts of interfering. Likewise, he refused to meet with the Dalai Lama for fear of annoying the Chinese; he reneged on Poland and Czechoslovakia to appease Russia. He may refuse to meet with PM Netanyahu of Israel this week as both address the Jewish Federations ( itself recently and cravenly revamped to diminish its connection with Israel!!). Obama is especially skilled in sub-vehiculation, having thrown his own grandmother under the bus when it seemed expedient to do so. However, Obama is merely the most extreme example of the untrustworthiness of the U.S. government and the unwisdom of those rising up against tyranny relying on the U.S. keeping its moral commitments ( ask the Hungarians in 1956 or the Kurds after the First Gulf War.) Note the Kissinger quote: "In this world it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but to be a friend is fatal."****
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The American Way of Abandonment by Patrick J. Buchanan ///When America is about to throw an ally to the wolves, we follow an established ritual. We discover that the man we supported was never really morally fit to be a friend or partner of the United States.****Although one might well wonder where we found some of these friends, however temporary ( e.g. Malicki, who wouldn't denounce Hezbollah even while addressing Congress or Karzai who was brought in from left field with vetting that must have been slight to none.)**** When Chiang Kai-shek, who fought the Japanese for four years before Pearl Harbor, began losing to Mao's Communists, we did not blame ourselves for being a faithless ally, we blamed him. He was incompetent; he was corrupt. We did not lose China. He did.
When Buddhist monks began immolating themselves in South Vietnam, the cry went up: President Diem, once hailed as the "George Washington of his country," was a dictator, a Catholic autocrat in a Buddhist nation, who had lost touch with his people....Three weeks before JFK was assassinated, Diem and his brother met the same fate....Lon Nol, our man in Phnom Penh, got the same treatment.
"In this world it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but to be a friend is fatal," said Henry Kissinger.
The army of South Vietnam and the Saigon government, the boat people of the South China Sea and the million victims of Pol Pot's genocide can testify to that before the judgment seat of history. ...But what does it avail us to insult these people who have cast their lot with us, many of whom will, with famines and friends, pay a far more terrible price than we if we lose these wars. And if we are going to abandon these people, as we have so many others in the past, let us at least tell them, and ourselves, the truth. We didn't know what we were getting into. We don't have the stomach for a long war. We're sorry we got you into this. Your big mistake was in trusting us. You folks should have known better.