Why aren’t we helping them? I think that politics in an election year is the most likely reason. And it’s infuriating, because just as Obama blew an opportunity to help the Iranians in their uprising, he’s now missing a strategic opportunity to take out a long-time linchpin of the enemy in the Middle East. We had no strategic interest in removing Khadaffi (or however his name was spelled) but we do in removing Assad.
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Obama can’t state his international strategy because it starts with god damn America.
Beyond Obama: We need to support those that support us. The Iranian people definitely would have because many of them remain pro-America even with all the lack of support we’ve given them.
Instability is a scary thing in this nuclear world, but is required for change. Things need to change. We need to engage because our enemies do.
It’s not the reason, but I don’t mind, because of the al Queada flags flying over cities in rebellion.
I’m of the “let them kill eachother” school.
Agree. The Arab Spring has turned into the Islamist Tidal Wave.
For the same reason that Clinton backed off in Serbia, Russian troops.
Rand answers his own question in the last sentence.
Before we support the rebels, who are they?