on iran and intervention

McGehee:

Plenty of other bloggers are arguing over whether the Obama Administration should be doing or saying more to support the protesters in Iran...

If we still had a president who could be counted not to screw up everything his teleprompter touches, I would wholeheartedly agree that the entire force and credibility of the United States should be deployed on the side of real democracy in any country deprived of it by its current ruling regime.

But Barack Obama’s foreign policy chops make Jimmy Carter look positively deft, and some of us remember what happened with Iran when Carter was in charge.

For the sake of everyone involved, I’m praying Obama keeps his mouth shut about Iran. That way when he leaves office the worst anyone will be able to say about him is that he was derelict in his duty and negligent of American interests abroad.

That’s also the best that can be said of him regardless of what he does. And I’m not prepared to trade American lives for a future election result.