This is what a world leader does

[Darth Omar]

The Trump administration is speaking out in support of Iranian citizens after protests challenging Iran's government erupted in major cities.

The protests were sparked this week by anger over economic issues — prices of basic goods like eggs and poultry have surged. Thousands have since taken to the streets of several cities in Iran, and demonstrators have criticized Iran's government during the protests.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbs...fsetDevice=amp
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The Leader of the Free World is back in the WH.

[Русский агент]

The Trump administration is speaking out in support of Iranian citizens after protests challenging Iran's government erupted in major cities.

The protests were sparked this week by anger over economic issues — prices of basic goods like eggs and poultry have surged. Thousands have since taken to the streets of several cities in Iran, and demonstrators have criticized Iran's government during the protests.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbs...fsetDevice=amp
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The Leader of the Free World is back in the WH.

Obama sided with the mullahs, didn't he?

[Cancel 2020.1]

Good for Trump & his admin, but overall, he is a terrible leader.

[Darth Omar]

Good for Trump & his admin, but overall, he is a terrible leader.

Just in the past two weeks the Israelis would disagree and now the Iranian protestors would disagree—the latter, vehemently.

We/they haven’t seen leadership like this in a while.

[Darth Omar]

Obama sided with the mullahs, didn't he?

Pretty much.

[Русский агент]

Pretty much.

No surprise, I guess. Didn't he send a planeload of cash to Iran before he left office?

[Cancel 2020.1]

Just in the past two weeks the Israelis would disagree and now the Iranian protestors would disagree—the latter, vehemently.

We/they haven’t seen leadership like this in a while.

I think the rest of the world views & treats Trump like a child - trying to be encouraging and give him a sense of security, because he is incredibly unpredictable, emotional and defensive. Beyond that, he has a major credibility problem with basically everyone; no one knows whether to trust what he says, or how firm any commitment is, since he can turn on a dime if he feels offended or just if his mood changes.

He's a terrible leader.

[Русский агент]

Why do liberals hate freedom?

Protesters took the streets in more than a half-dozen cities in Iran for a second day Friday, risking their lives to challenge the Islamist tyranny that has prevailed in the country since 1979, when it held American diplomats hostage.

The protests began as demonstrations against conditions but have now grown to express general opposition to the Islamist government.

Instead of the usual Iranian crowds stage-managed by government thugs to chant “death to America” or “death to Israel,” we instead see spontaneous protesters crying “death to the dictator” and “death to Rouhani,” referring to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

Protests have even spread to Qom, the intellectual heartland of the 1979 Islamist revolution and the onetime base of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini when he successfully worked to destroy Iran’s secular government before 1979.

The last widespread and sustained protests in Iran occurred in 2009, after fraudulent elections. At the time, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shamefully sat on their hands, saying and doing nothing to support the protesters. They later justified their silence by claiming that protesters wouldn’t want U.S. support, which would enable the Iranian regime to paint the protests as a foreign plot.

In reality, despotic regimes will always make the claim that America is behind protests. Furthermore, pro-freedom protesters always privately want the support of the free world – and the American president. Such support cheers dissidents and raises the cost to the dictatorial regime of brutally suppressing protests.

For example, Lech Walesa, the leader of the Solidarity movement that challenged and eventually brought down communism in Poland in the 1980s, credited President Ronald Reagan’s unabashed support for the movement’s success.

Elsewhere in the Soviet bloc, a dissident named Natan Sharansky was rotting in a Russian prison when he and his fellow prisoners heard that President Reagan had referred to the Soviet Union as an evil empire destined for the ash heap of history.

Sharansky later remarked: “For us, that was the moment that really marked the end for them, and the beginning for us. The lie had been exposed and could never, ever be untold now.”

Clearly, the moral support of the American president can make a big difference in influencing political outcomes abroad.

Cheering those who challenge Iran’s regime isn’t just feel-good moralizing: it could be pragmatic statecraft that is an important part of the pragmatic realism that President Trump has sought to restore to American foreign policy.

If protesters change or even just weaken Iran’s current political construction, it will make it less likely that Tehran continues to export terrorism, weaken secular states across the Middle East and pursue a nuclear weapons program.


http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/12/29/iran-is-being-rocked-by-anti-government-protests-heres-why-demonstrators-deserve-trumps-support.html

[Darth Omar]

I think the rest of the world views & treats Trump like a child - trying to be encouraging and give him a sense of security, because he is incredibly unpredictable, emotional and defensive. Beyond that, he has a major credibility problem with basically everyone; no one knows whether to trust what he says, or how firm any commitment is, since he can turn on a dime if he feels offended or just if his mood changes.

He's a terrible leader.

Yet the Israelis are naming streets after him and now the Iranian protestors have no doubt warmed to him since no one else is standing up for them.

Your narrative doesn’t square with the facts too well.

[Sailor]

If this turns into another Green uprising, I do not think this President will turn tail and run like others had. That is a good thing.

[Cancel 2020.1]

Yet the Israelis are naming streets after him and now the Iranian protestors have no doubt warmed to him since no one else is standing up for them.

Your narrative doesn’t square with the facts too well.

I don't think you're reading my narrative correctly. Like I said - it's how the world is treating Trump.

Trump's supporters were so wowed by his red carpet treatment in China; I was embarrassed by that. It showed that the blueprint is out on Trump. No one really takes him seriously, but they know (from Putin) how to manipulate him.

[Cancel 2020.1]

I believe that little Thingy is incredibly predictable, emotional and defensive. Beyond that, he has a major credibility problem with basically everyone; nobody trusts what he says, since he can turn on the tears if he feels offended or just if his mood changes.

That sounds similar to what I wrote.

You weren't copying that on purpose...were you?

[Cancel 2020.1]

I was, little Thingy. Your feminine intuition was correct this time.

It wasn't really intuition.

But, as always, I respect your POV on it.

[Cancel 2020.1]

You crave my attention, little Thingy. That's obvious.

I generally only respond when your posts have been about me, so I'd disagree w/ that. But you are, of course, welcome to your own opinion on that.

[Русский агент]

It seems odd that none of the JPP FEMOCRATS are celebrating the sisters in Persia, doesn't it? Or perhaps it doesn't.