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Defend America on Friday, December 25, 2009 8:09:31 AM
2009: The Year of Living Fecklessly
by Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not
just reject President Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear
deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran "will continue resisting"
until the U.S. has gotten rid of its 8,000 nuclear warheads.
So ends 2009, the year of "engagement," of the extended hand, of
the gratuitous apology -- and of spinning centrifuges, two-stage
rockets and a secret enrichment facility that brought Iran materially
closer to becoming a nuclear power.
We lost a year. But it was not just any year. It
was a year of spectacularly squandered opportunity. In Iran, it was a
year of revolution, beginning with a contested election and culminating
this week in huge demonstrations mourning the death of the dissident
Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri -- and demanding no longer a
recount of the stolen election but the overthrow of the clerical
dictatorship.
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/12/25/2009_the_year_of_living_fecklessly