Today’s front page Washington Post headline reads, “Obama Seeks Way to Acknowledge Protesters Without Alienating Ayatollah.” This headline could be considered humorous if not for the fact that hundreds of thousands of innocent Iranians are putting their lives on the line in the name of freedom. Iran’s Supreme Leader has routinely called for the “destruction of the state of Israel,” “death to America” and has even blamed the U.S. for meddling with this election, yet our president is still worried about what this man thinks of us.

Barack Obama had the perfect opportunity to confront the Iranian regime, but instead he has elected to sit back and watch as pro-Western youths are beaten, arrested, and, in some cases, killed by radical Islamic thugs. I hope Barack Obama and his advisors read Ralph Peters’ column today in the New York Post. Col. Peters could not have said it any better. Here’s what he wrote:

“To Obama, his dogmatic commitment to negotiations is infinitely more important than a few million protestors chanting the Farsi equivalent of ‘We Shall Overcome.’ This is madness. There is no chance—zero, null, nada—that negotiations with the junta of mullahs will lead to the termination (or even serious interruption) of Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. Our president’s faith in his powers of persuasion is beginning to look pathological. Is his program of negotiations with apocalypse-minded, woman-hating, Jew-killing fanatics so sacrosanct that he can’t acknowledge human cries for freedom?”

The president’s handling of this historic time in Iran has been an embarrassment to the United States. Rather than recognizing and supporting those Muslims who genuinely support America and the ideals we were built on, Barack Obama has decided to side with a tyrannical regime that with each passing day of silence gains more legitimacy.

- Excerpt from Gary Bauer’s Daily Report
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