Chickens Coming Home

Obama is saying to Iran, "come, let us reason." Seeking reform is not a crime in many places, but Iran brutally suppresses internal dissent (to the extent that they just sentenced a pair of HIV research doctors for alleged espionage), dishes out rough treatment to peaceful protesters, executes more people than any nation but China, and is working at a feverish pace to develop nuclear weapons to destroy Israel and threaten her other neighbors. Iran is the rabid dog of the world, exporting terror, specifically backing Hizbollah primarily in Lebanon but whose tentacles have a global reach and the Mehdi Army which has fought Americans in Iraq. Iran wants to be the regional hegemon at the least and many in her theocratic power-structure are end-timers who seek to bring about the destruction of the world. Obama's victory is about much more than style over substance or the symbolism of measures like closing Guantanamo, his policies to overturn Bush even where the former President advanced our and the world's security, that he is engendering the sort of jeopardy that diplomats and Presidents are supposed to prevent. In retrospect, we may miss Bush and regret that McCain, who was a security first hawk, lost.