[quote=pri_dk][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Pri: And, unsurprisingly, you proffer yet another strawman. Where, oh where, did I mention regime change in Iran?[/quote]
Just a few posts earlier:
[quote]Obama had a golden opportunity to drive a blade into the Iranian regime[/quote]
This whole interaction started with two sentences where I mentioned nothing about the Middle East except the word “Gaddafi.” You took that and went off into a tirade about Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. which led into some reference to a New York Times reporter…
And now you seem to be claiming that you didn’t mention any of this stuff?
Don’t bother trying to explain that you meant something else with the phrase “drive a blade.”
You’ve exceeded your quota on the “straw-man” claims.[/quote]
Pri: Now you feign ignorance on what is meant by “regime change”? Regime change is the US invading Iraq and ousting Saddam Hussein. Supporting a genuiune, homegrown uprising (which Iran was, by the way) is completely and totally different, which is what I meant by “driving a blade”. Obama was afforded the opportunity to provide priceless support for a populace that was desperately looking to America for a sign and that sign never came.
Pri, you simply cannot be this obtuse. You either feign ignorance of what certain words mean, or you completely misread what I meant and twist it into something entirely different.
Hey, how’s about talking on a subject you seem almost PATHOLOGICALLY averse to recognizing? That would be Obama’s policies (actually Dubya’s policies as continued by Obama, but you know what I mean – hopefully). Another very good article in Salon, that hopelessly retrograde Republican party organ on Obama’s CIA policies: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/barack_obama/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/09/01/obama.
Money shot from the article: “Frontline adds that while candidate Obama “promised a sweeping overhaul of the Bush administration’s war on terror” and “a top to bottom review of the threats we face and our abilities to confront them,” Rizzo explains that, in fact, Obama officials during the transition made clear to the CIA that they intended almost complete continuity.”
