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Iran and Obama

There is a cry from the heart of the Iranian people in revolt.

            An open letter to Obama, dated 20 June 2009 and purporting to be from the office of Mir Hossein Mousavi (received by Michael Ledeen through sources he considers reliable) states that
 

            In the name of the Iranian people, we want you to know that when you recently made the statement “Achmadinejad or Mousavi? Two of a kind,” we consider this as a grave and deep insult, not just to Mr. Mousavi but especially against the judgment of the Iranian people, against our moral conviction and intelligence, especially those of the young generation that comprises a population of 31 million.

            It is a specially grave insult for those who are now fighting for democracy and freedom, and an unwarranted gift and even praise for Mr. Khamenei, whose security forces are now killing peaceful Iranians in the streets of every major city in the country.

            Your statement misled the people of the world.

Mousavi said in a speech the following day, Sunday, 21 June 2009, that the great participation in the election was a response to efforts to instill hope and trust in the people, and that the regime’s failure to protect votes and its attacks on civil and peaceful protest make it responsible for the consequences.  Further, he said,
 

            If the high volume of cheating and vote manipulation, that has put a fire to the foundations of people’s trust, is itself introduced as the proof and evidence of the lack of fraud, the republicanism of the regime will be slaughtered and the idea of incompatibility of Islam and republicanism would be practically proven.

Is that bizarre - fraud means lack of fraud? - but as I think my way into a broad Iranian cultural tradition of conscience-free duplicity and tortured rationales, and combine it with the current regime’s fanatical despotism and dishonesty, I can believe that the regime actually cites a high volume of cheating and manipulation to show a lack of fraud - or at least a lack of any reason to have a new election.  Leave it to the mullahs.  As Mousavi suggests, Islam and republican (that is, elected representative) government just might be incompatible.

            Obama is very smart.  His IQ is supposed to be 147.  He went to my law school, which accepts many smart people and graduates many smart people, which shows it isn’t altogether stultifying, doesn’t do its students too much harm.

            But Obama lacks moral intelligence.  When he said that Mousavi and Ahmadinejad were two of a kind, he was quite logical in the sense that they both support an Islamic Republic with nuclear ambitions.  But the mad often excel in dry logic.  Moral intelligence would allow one to perceive that this similarity between the two men is not the issue.

            The issue is fair and democratic elections, including the right of people to protest election fraud and to assemble and petition for new, honest elections without being shot in cold blood or arbitrarily arrested.  Mousavi’s message to Obama is spot on.  Ronald Reagan (remember him at the wall?) would have called upon the Iranian regime to conduct new, fair elections, precisely the agenda of the Iranian protestors.

            Obama marginalizes human rights.  He is a reactionary, who wants to be a lord (benevolent, of course!) surrounded by serfs.  The country he misgoverns grew from ideals of democracy and freedom, and was born to espouse them.  A natural born citizen would be more in tune with the essence of the country he seeks to govern.  That qualification for President was not lightly included in the Constitution.  Its framers knew of a Poland ruled by foreign kings, and the first partition of that land.  They knew England’s king, George III, was a German, the Prince of Hanover.  They knew their colonies were governed by men not born there, or appointed by a king who was not.

            Obama may be ideologically compromised with the Persian mullahs and their puppet Ahmadinejad, in that they all use election fraud.  Obama denied Americans the chance to vote for a Harpy President, who, whatever else might be said about her, is at least a natural born U.S. citizen.  Obama might also be diluting his criticism of Iran’s regime out of knowledge or a fear, well grounded or not, that it has conclusive evidence he is not a natural born U.S. citizen, hence is constitutionally barred from the office he currently occupies.  He and his supporters don’t want all that expensive cover-up to go to waste.  More proof he lacks moral intelligence.  As John Randolph of Virginia would have put it, he is both brilliant and corrupt; like a rotting mackerel in the moonlight, he both shines and stinks.

            If the American administration is pandering to the despots to facilitate negotiations, perhaps it fails to consider how friendly will be Iranian negotiators who come to power in an uprising made vastly more difficult and bloody because of Obama’s encouragement of the ancien regime.  If Iran’s current government wins, it won’t negotiate in good faith anyway.

            Some sixty percent (or more) of Iranians are under thirty and about seventy-seven percent are literate.  Both the young and not so young (Mousavi is nearly 68) know what’s being done to them.  They are generally intelligent, full of the milk of human kindness, and yearning to breathe free.  I don’t believe in the power of prayer, but I pray for them; at least it makes me feel better.  I yearn for the audacity to hope that Obama’s meretricious abuse of the bully pulpit he conned from American voters will not furnish the margin of victory of the Iranian despots over their subjects.  Such a victory would inflict terrible human costs on Iranians, and would be a grave threat to world peace.

Albert W. L. Moore, Jr