I think Michelle Malkin coined the term, “Bush Derangement Syndrome.” BDS required that every liberal or centrist reaction to everything that Bush did was negative. It didn’t matter what it was. If Bush said anything, it was a lie; if he did anything, it was wrong. It got to the place that it was really tiresome. Now, that Bush is gone, the liberal agenda is in power with President Obama, and the conservative right seems to have developed a bad case of Obama Derangement Syndrome. ODS requires that they label everything that Obama says or does as wrong. I can’t support that. It becomes too easy. The present situation in Iran is an example. The conservative media, its pundits, and many in Congress have called for the President to get tough with Iran by supporting the demonstrations and reviling the government reaction to them. Early in the conflict, Obama wisely did not get involved. Lately, however, he seems to yielding to the demands to get “tough with Iran.’ While there is much to disgust in Iran, I wonder just what the President of the United States hopes to gain for the US by supporting either side. It is probably the ultimate pipe dream to think that a replacement regime in Iran still run by Islamic law would suddenly drop its hatred of the United States and Israel if it assumed power and become our friend. No matter how much money we spend there, how many troops we commit, or lives we give, the Iranians will still hate us. Ultimately, the people of Iran are responsible for their own government. The United States needs to start making policy and decisions based upon the benefit to the United States and its people. The Iranian people chose their lot. It is up to them to change it. In the United States, many disagree with President Obama and didn’t vote for him. There are those who think that he is ineligible for the Presidency. These are internal political American problems which we will work out. So far, the streets are still empty of demonstrations and violence. We do not need nor would we like for another nation to be telling us how to run our country. We may disagree vehemently with the attitudes of the current regime in Iran, but it was elected and certified by Iran. The election may have been rigged, we don’t know; we will probably never know. In fact, there are those in our country who feel that Bush stole the election from Kerry in 2000. The people of Iran, if they want change, must do it themselves. We have shed way too much American blood paying the price for other people’s freedom. Then, once that freedom is won, the gratitude for the freedom bought with American blood fades quickly into history.
