The Obama Administration’s endless quest for additional sanctions against Iran has taken a new and bizarre form today, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton actually argued that the sanctions were necessary to save the nation’s Islamic Republic system of government from growing military influence.
“We see that the Government in Iran, the Supreme Leader, the President, the parliament is being supplanted and that Iran is moving towards a military dictatorship,” Clinton warned.
She also expressed concern that Iran could become “a far cry from the Islamic Republic that had elections and different points of view.” Perplexingly, the United States has taken an extremely negative view of Iran’s post-revolution form of government from the beginning, and has regularly backed military juntas across the Middle East.
Now, Secretary Clinton seems to see the “crippling sanctions” across the board as a way of saving the Islamic Republic from the Revolutionary Guards. At least that’s the current line as the administration pushes forward with garnering international support for the move.
As if underscoring how readily the administration changes its line to fit the situation, Clinton’s comments came just a day after National Security Adviser James Jones advocated new sanctions on Fox News with the argument that the sanctions could undermine the Islamic Republic enough that the Green Revolution opposition might take over in a regime change.
The US didn't seem to have any trouble with a military dictatorship in Pakistan, and they don't seem to have any trouble with a Monarchy is Saudi Arabia. Stop the BS and just say what you mean.
GET RID OF THE HORRIBLE HAG HILLARY..????? This woman seems to look and sound stupider and stupider at every new showing… Where is the hook to get this tired woman off the stage so someone with actual constructive dialog or some REAL ideas can DO the job which Hillary so aptly blunders….. The U.S., with two wars to kill Muslims and exterminate their culture now suddenly wants to save their form of government while threatening then with attack…… This is CRAZY and won't sell..!!
Perhaps this is an admission of sorts that the whole nuclear issue isn't an issue at all, now they're shifting the rhetoric towards Irans domestic politics, they did this with Saddam, every time one of the war parties lies were debunked up popped another to try and justify the destruction of Iraq and murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's .
I'm sure soon we'll be hearing that Ahmadinejad is the new "hitler of the middle east" hell bent on ruling the entire middle east , I suppose we'll have to somehow forget that Iran hasn't started a war or invaded another country in the last couple of hundred years.
Yes, Hillary is right! Harsh sanctions against Iran should be implemented immediately. The whole world knows that Iran has recently waged two unjust, immoral, aggressive and brutal wars in the Middle East that has killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children. The whole world knows that Iran spends more on its military forces than the rest of the world spends for military forces combined. The whole world knows that Iran wastefully spends hundreds of billions of dollars each year to maintain its worldwide network of 750 plus military bases in order to force the rest of world to do business on its terms. The whole world knows that Iran wastefully spends billions of dollars each year on its intelligence services in order to overthrow foreign governments, foment revolutions and to torture its many enemies. The whole world knows that Iran wastefully spends billions of dollars each year to maintain a “homeland security” system that spies on its citizen’s telephone conversations, spies on its citizen’s email communications, and spies on its citizen’s financial transactions. (continued in next post)
And, let us not forget how politicians in the Iranian government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to bailout its fat-cat banking cronies in the Iranian banking system. Yes, all of this enormous and wasteful spending was done by the Iranian government at a time when tens of millions of its own citizens were unemployed or underemployed, tens of millions of its own citizens were on food stamps, millions of its own citizens were without adequate healthcare, millions of its own citizens were being thrown out of their homes because they couldn’t afford to make their mortgage payments, and millions of elderly citizens were facing certain poverty because its social security system was going bankrupt. Yes, harsh sanctions should be immediately enforced against an Iranian government that is totally out of control and is a clear and present danger to the physical and economic security of the entire world. Yes, let us be eternally thankful for politicians like Hillary Clinton who stand-up for truth, justice and liberty for all. Go for those sanctions girl; the American people are behind you all the way!
A great synopsis of the problem. Sounds like a strong argument for a revolution. If not "We must first destroy the village in order to save it.".
I'm sure the Mullahs are touched by Hillary's heartfelt concern for the preservation of their Islamic republic.
one must wonder in ten years when america is defeated in the persian war, and all the books and pundits sits around asking what were we thinking while being herded off to war.
i hope someone will remember that the answer is, nothing.