America’s Secret Ayatollahs

The events in Iran after the much disputed elections seem to be gaining force by the day. There has yet to be an all-out crushing of the opposition by the current Iranian government. The reason for this may well be that they haven’t been able to characterize the demonstrations as Western inspired and show any evidence that the US government is behind them. President Obama has remained cool and calm and made our administration’s position clear--that this an Iranian matter and our meddling will be counter productive.

Meanwhile the right wingnuts (read Republicans) have been rattling their sabers for all they are worth and calling Obama every name in the book. They would have us get involved in trumpeting our support of the opposition against the current government, which would be all it would take for the Iranian government to step in with heavy military and paramilitary might to crush the opposition, killing thousands of Iranians in the process. They may do that anyway, but do we want it to be blamed on us? Really, fellows, whose side are you on here? Do you really want this peaceful opposition crushed?

Here’s my theory for the day. Perhaps our right wing Republicans are secretly in league with the Ayatollahs. Perhaps they are for the theocracy in Iran. After all, that’s what they want for us--a Christian theocracy to oppose the Islamic theocracies abroad. That, at least, makes their actions make sense. Or perhaps the party of “NO” just has to be against everything Obama does, even when he is acting in our best interests. Or perhaps they are depending on the American population to be stupid enough to not see through their smoke screens. I hope they really aren’t themselves as stupid as the small segment of the US population they still appeal to. We do need at least a two-party system in the US, and it doesn’t really help for one of those parties to be that dumb.