From the Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't Department

President Obama has been taking a ton of heat from his critics for not coming out stronger in his condemnation of the Iranian regime in it's violent reaction to the protesters. Senators Lindsay Graham and John McCain went on the Sunday shows and talked about the "tepid" response to the crisis in Iran. Even some leftward leaning media outlets thought that the President's reponse was less than underwhelming. Some even criticized the President for going about his "normal" business while Iran burned.

I have to respectfully disagree with all of them. Iran is an odd creature and President Obama HAS learned a little bit from our dismal past history with Iran. He made the calculated decision to hold back on comment on the situation, knowing (rightly) that the Mullah's and Iranian state run television would use anything that he said against the US...and he was right.....

The Iranian government, meanwhile, accused the U.S. for the first time of interfering in the postelection dispute. Iran protested to the Swiss ambassador, who represents U.S. affairs in Iran because the two nations have no diplomatic ties. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that President Barack Obama stands by his defense of principles such as the right of people to demonstrate...

So even though he took a cautious prudent approach, the President is getting what he feared, which actually should free him up to do the BOLD thing - to come out and condemn the Iraqi government for the escalation of violence. You've done the politically correct thing, now do the morally correct one! It's that time.....