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Hillary Goes Weak-Kneed on Iran Sanctions

Alan from NJ Wrote: Jan 23, 2010 8:03 AM
about the bloodied young Iranians, protesting in the streets? Where are the indignant freedom loving officials. If Hillary really cared about the Iranian people, she would speak out against oppression, like Reagan did, and JFK. She should, perhaps, use Alinsky's ridicule approach. What, after all, did she learn from him?

A squishy, misguided, weak-kneed liberalism has emerged in Hillary Clinton's comments about the kind of sanctions that would work best in halting Iran's nuclear program. Rather than take the one step that would really be effective - cutting off the flow of refined gasoline to Iran - she instead insists that we need to target the Iranian leadership with sanctions.

Her husband wisely rejected the same kind of advice in deciding on the sanctions to impose on Serbia during the Bosnia war, opting for broad based economic sanctions to deter aggression. The sanctions were incredibly effective and the mere...