(Time Magazine Cover image courtesy of The Imus Times)Over the course of the Presidential Primary Season, and then the General Election, I found myself often interested in what Pat Buchanan had to say. This is, after all, a man whose views and outlook I rarely, if ever, would agree with. However, I believe that out of all the members of the punditocracy, Buchanan has perhaps the strongest knack for outlining and understanding the real politick of the day.
So I was heartened to read Buchanan's assessment of President Obama's reaction to the events out of Iran, over at Townhall.com.
There are other reasons Obama should not heed the war hawks howling for confrontation now.
When your adversary is making a fool of himself, get out of the way. That is a rule of politics Lyndon Johnson once put into the most pungent of terms. U.S. fulminations will change nothing in Tehran. But they would enable the regime to divert attention to U.S. meddling in Iran's affairs and portray the candidate robbed in this election, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, as a poodle of the Americans.
(Emphasis mine). This is exactly why I disagreed with Abe Greenwald's premise. President Obama is displaying cautious leadership on this issue. The die has been cast in Iran, and it is time to see how the roll plays.
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