Posted by
Noam D. Gear on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:06:52 PM
Like millions of Americans this week, I watched the video clip of the killing of Neda Soltani by Iranian thugs who were trying to stop citizens from protesting the sham election of Ahmadinijad. The sight of her young face becoming flooded with her own blood has indelibly stained my mind in a way that shall not soon fade.
This may be horribly un-politically-correct. However, I must confess that upon seeing the video, I wished that I had been there to stop, deter, harm, or even kill the shooter before he shot Neda Soltani.
“Violence is not the answer!” is the banal slogan often chanted by people who stand by while brutal regimes slaughter innocent people. In this slogan, cowardice is perfumed with pacifism so that it smells just like moral virtue. If you add in the busy shuffling of important documents between your left and right hands…while sniffing your own perfume…while the brutal murders continue all around you… then you have a picture of the United Nations, or its army of tender-minded liberals from the “International Community”. They now call themselves “Foreign Policy Realists”. It sounds loftier than “Betitled Spectators of Carnage”.
The video of Neda moved me to search and find that only one in twenty Iranians own a gun that could have been used to shoot the sniper. If I “Bing” the Internet correctly, it appears that Iran has very restrictive gun laws. No surprise there. Most oppressive regimes quickly enact laws to take guns from citizens. Guns are horribly unsafe, you know--just ask Mahmoud Ahmadinijad, Daniel Ortega, Robert Mugabe, Than Shwe …. They all agree.
I wish that President Obama had denounced the Ahmadinijad regime long before the opinion surveys dragged him into it. How could a man who works himself into moral slather over three terrorists being water-boarded seven years ago, now be so blasé about the open-air slaughter of dozens of non-terrorists this very week? Where else in history has Obama ever closed his mouth and avoided cameras as a tactic of persuasion?
Neda Soltani, God blessed us with you. You have done more to liberate Iran than ten trucks full of United Nations Documents; more than a lake full of pacifist perfume; and more than the sterile, halting, and belated pronouncements of our pitiful “Rock Star” President. His utterances are not worth the air that they are printed upon.