If one needs a reason to explain why Mark Levin is one of the most intelligent, cogent, and engaging voices on talk radio today, the provided clip from yesterday’s show is it.
The argument laid out in Mark’s first hour is three-pronged. First, he criticizes President Hope&Change for his initial silence, later followed by prevaricating and mealy-mouthed platitudes about being “concerned” for the people of Iran. (I know, I know, by now Obama’s “condemned” the violence. Bully for you.)
With all due respect, Mr. President, that’s bullsh*t. You were so concerned about them that while they were being gunned down by the Ayatollahs’ militia in the street, you were treating your own children to ice cream. Sorry, but your idea of “concern” doesn’t muster much confidence in me. (Especially, since in just a few short hours you will be on ABC News telling the American people how much you’re “concerned” about our access to health care.)
Second, Mark ridicules Obama for actually taking credit for the uprising claim last week, as if somehow his morally and substantively vacuous Cairo speech somehow motivated the Iranian people to—how did he say it?—have the “debate.” Yeah, because marching in the streets while militia gun you down is my idea of “debate.” Mark totally destroys this ridiculous claim. On the contrary, if Obama’s Cairo speech did anything, it was embolden the Iranian Islamofascist regime to rig the election (allegedly) and to beat down the ensuing popular uprising with violent force. (‘Cuz that’s what tyrannical regimes do, schmuck!)
Then Mark comes to a brilliant conclusion: Rather than Obama’s Cairo speech motivating the Iranian people to speak out, it was much more likely to have been George W. Bush’s war in Iraq. Thanks to Bush and hundreds of thousands of brave troops, 25 million Iraqi people now know the taste of freedom. They’ve had several elections, they’ve built schools and hospitals, they’ve created businesses, a stock market, and brought electricity, running water, and phone service where they never existed under Saddam. Yet Barack Obama and Democrats across the country derided and demonized Bush and the Iraq War.
I think Mark is exactly right. The Iranian people aren’t rising up at the risk of losing their lives because of a vacuous, pandering, and self-aggrandizing speech. They’re rising up because they witnessed the Iraqi people rise up for freedom—thanks to George W. Bush—and they’ve seen that liberty can exist in their corner of the world.
Thirdly, Mark castigates Obama’s vision of himself as a “global” president, for not having the courage of even the leaders of Canada and France to call out this murderous regime for what it is. He takes Obama to task for his obsession with not wanting to “offend” the Islamofascist regime and making them hate us any more than they already do (which, of course, Obama would claim to be the fault of some other preceeding president). Mark correctly points out that this position is no less reprehensible than not intervening so as not to “offend” Hitler during WWII.
By taking the position of taking no position, Obama has squandered the opportunity taken by U.S. presidents—regardless of political party—as bold speakers for liberty throughout the world. By failing to uphold that role of moral leadership expected of American presidents, Obama has stained the reputation of the American presidency, and in the processed weakened the status of the U.S. as a nation that stands up for the freedom of all peoples.
Taking this all in, Mark formulates what should henceforth be known as the Obama Doctrine:
Even when people are screaming out for liberty, even when they’re screaming out for democracy, even when they’re facing down one of the worst terrorist regimes on the face of the Earth—that seeks nuclear weapons!—even when they’re doing our job for us to try and topple this regime, we should be quiet, ‘cause we might offend.
Bingo. They don’t call him “The Great One” for nothing.
Sit back and listen to 23 minutes of pure gold.
[Commercial breaks, long silences, and any other moments of extraneous talking have been edited out by me. For the original clip in its entirety, visit www.MarkLevinShow.com]:
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