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Obama's right

not to get involved

Regarding the June 21 Charles Krauthammer column, "Obama's response to Iran appalling, clueless":

It is interesting that Krauthammer thinks Obama and the United States should get involved in regime change in Iran. We are already embroiled in two wars that we entered for regime change.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would like nothing better than to portray the United States as the threatening enemy - it's one of the things that has united the Iranian people behind him.

And, if we encourage the dissidents, are we going to support them militarily?

Remember what happened during the first Gulf War? Many Iraqis were tortured or killed because they trusted the United States to follow through on toppling the dictatorship there.

Obama's quiet support of the protesters is the most appropriate response. If anyone's clueless, it's Krauthammer.

CAROLYN BASSETT

Linwood

Don't interfere

in Iran's affairs

In the recent Iranian election, 85 percent of the eligible voters went to the polls. The results of these elections had Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with 11 million more votes than Mir Hossein Mousavi. Iranian supporters of Mousavi took to the streets to protest the election. It is hard to understand a protest over such a one-sided outcome.

Congress took time to vote to condemn the crackdown on Iranian protesters. The only member of Congress to vote not to interfere in the actions of another sovereign government was Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. Rep. Mike Pence. R-Indiana, said "the American people long to be heard" in condemning Iran. If Americans condemn Iran, it is because Iran is constantly demonized by the American media.

Did any Iranian condemn America in 2000 when the presidential candidate who had won the popular vote lost the election because the Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount and gave the election to George W. Bush? Why does America interfere in the internal affairs of other governments? We would not allow another government to interfere in our affairs.

ED POWICK

Cape May

1 comment:

• todfiat (0) posts 11:09 am

  Let's take a stroll down memory lane with half-right Carolyn from Linwood: Remember what happened to the Diem brothers in Saigon, 1962? They were betrayed by the Democrat Kennedy Borthers, and murdered in a coup the Kennedy-loving CIA fomented. Remember the Bay of Pigs, 1962? Alpha 66 and other Cuban resistance fighters were abandoned on the beaches by the Kennedy-loving US Navy, and decimated. Combined with the multiple assassination attempts against the dictator Castro by the Kennedy-loving CIA, Castro only had one option: to set in motion the asassination of JFK by the patsy Lee Harvey Oswald. He succeeded since he did not have the inept CIA to contend with. And before too long, we had 100,000 Cuban criminal and mental patients and welfare moms dumped on Dade & Broward Counties to clean up the whole Bay of Pigs mess. And So. Florida has been on the decline ever since. Remember Cambodia? Angkor Wat? When we abandoned Vietnam, the zany Khmer Rouge got busy murdering 1.7 MILLION of their countrymen, unfettered by America, which had slunk back to its own hemisphere with its head handed to it by the VA and NVA. Before that, after Democrats JFK and RFK had trashed the legitimate South Vietnam govt. with the Diem murders, Democrat Warmonger El Jefe Lyndon Johnson fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin incident, then got the War Powers act from a docile Congress, leading to the biggest military debacle in America's history, enabled by a slavish Democrat Party. This opened the door to Nixon & Kissinger, who cleaned up the Kennedy & Johnson mess in short order w/ Operation Rolling Thunder and Operation Linebacker and other B-52 carpet-bombing orgies. Then LBJ quit and slunk back to TexAss with his tail between his legs. Gosh, it's enuff to make ya think that the Democrats actually played at war, once upon a time, rather than acting so holier-than-thou with the current fair-haired boy in the half-White House. And i haven't even mentioned the nitwit Jimmy Carter.

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