Was Obama's Response to Iranian Protests Appropriate?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/20/Uncommon_Knowledge_Robert_Baer_and_Victor_Davis_Hanson

Former CIA Operative Robert Baer and syndicated columnist Victor Davis Hanson weigh President Obama's decision to refrain from actively supporting Iranian opposition groups in the wake of that country's controversial June 2009 election.

Photo credit: Hamed Saber

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Does Iran possess the ability to produce nuclear weapons? Both Bob Baer and Victor Hanson agree that it does. On the questions that flow from this assertion, agreement is more difficult to find. What does Iran hope to accomplish by developing the bomb? Can the United States live with a nuclear Iran? Can Israel? Israeli Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh in an October interview asserted "If no crippling sanctions are in place by Christmas, Israel will strike...if we are left alone, we will act alone." Does Israel possess the ability to destroy the Iranian nuclear program?

With each month bringing another deception and diversion from Iran, what can the United States do to prevent a conflagration in the Middle East? - Hoover Institution

Robert Baer was a CIA case officer in the Directorate of Operations from 1976 to 1997, where he served in Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq and Lebanon. His latest book is The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.

Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor emeritus at California University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He was a full-time farmer before joining CSU Fresno, in 1984 to initiate a classics program.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

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[jamed2catch]

IRAN 1953..... WE HAD DEMOCRACY, you guys came and took it away!

[gotilk]

You will never achieve peace bloodlessly by taking "a stand". Almost every bad thing that's ever happened in the world can be traced by to inflexible leaders who refused to listen no matter what was presented to them. And the achievement of peace, bloodlessly, has always been attained by reasonable men who seized opportunities to influence rather than distance.

[noobler9]

@offsprng46 lolwut

[jd3938]

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[nilo723]

Don't stick ur nose is other people's ass Americans, or you will get raped again..

[poiuytrewq6641]

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[TheCorrectInfo]

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[virusshamimi]

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[offsprng46]

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[offsprng46]

Whatever. I don't care what MI5 or their lackeys (whether conscious or not) have to say.

[virusshamimi]

@offsprng46 YOU sound like one of these poofters from north tehran ,who managed to get away.

[offsprng46]

Glad to see that someone here realizes what's really going on. It's so sad to see all of these dupes of the GE News Channel (aka MSNBC, but more appropriately called msnBS) blindly supporting CIA's imperialism with left-wing slogans (as opposed to Bush and the neo-cons' imperialism with right-wing slogans)...