Reply #22: Dems are responding somewhat to the blogosphere regarding Iraq troop withdrawals [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

They see it as a winning issue with the public passionately behind them, thus they can score points against the Republicans on it. But I agree with Mass that they are constantly looking over their shoulder saying; "Oh oh, now we took a stand for peace which could be construed as a stand for surrender, so we have to act doubly tough about other pending threats to America or the Republicans will beat us on National Security.

Hence even when most Democrats mention the need for diplomacy with Iran, the only specifics they mention are one sided means of applying negative pressure on Iran to change their behavior with virtually no acknowledgementof America's role in furthering the conflict. Listen some time to what Democrats say when they advocate diplomacy to deal with Iran before we talk about bombing them. They advocate getting tougher new Security Resolutions against Iran, they talk about organizing more nations to impose sanctions against Iran, they talk about delivering in person a message to Iran that they will not be regarded as a civilized nation unless they change this that and the other behavior.

Meanwhile it is perfectly acceptable for Democrats to talk about how much Iran could benefit from a "regiem change" to oust those oppresive mulahs and free their people, knowing full well that the U.S. is currently supporting groups inside Iran attempting to bring about the overthrow of that government.