29 December 2009

Iran

Posted by Connor under: Foreign Policy .

I was going to say something along the lines of how what is happening in Iran reminds me of Europe circa 1989, and how the Obama administration is doing just the right thing by taking a hands off approach, but… What The Economist said:

In other words, if 1989 is your analogy (and there are reasons it shouldn’t be), listen to the American president at that time. First do no harm. Publicly deplore the violence and remind Iran’s leaders of the universality of the right to free assembly and expression. But do not call for the regime’s overthrow, much less threaten to bring it about. It can be painful to do (mostly) nothing, but acting “flamboyantly”, as the elder Bush so memorably called it, would be worse.

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