warning we keep hearing from the press: Ahmadinejad and the mullahs are unpopular with the Iranian people—but precisely for that reason, we dare not oppose them, because confronting Iran will only cause the people to rally to the dictators' side. In other words, if we want to fight terrorism, the last thing we should do is to fight terrorism.
This is an obvious contradiction, and functions merely as another excuse for those who seek the superficial safety of doing nothing—or for those who secretly sympathize with the enemy and want to blame "American aggression" for every problem in the world. … Michael Ledeen provides a good analysis of that second approach.
He does so while discussing yet another crackdown on internal dissent being launched by the Iranian regime. As Ledeen points out, the only American newspaper that is prominently and tirelessly covering the fate of Iran's dissidents is the New York Sun… The rest of America's newspapers are apparently indifferent to the world's real freedom-fighters.
Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
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