George Will: GOP Criticism of Obama on Iran is "foolish"

Wow, for once I actually agree with George Will on something! According to Will, "The president is being roundly criticized for insufficient, rhetorical support for what’s going on over there. It seems to me foolish criticism. The people on the streets know full well what the American attitude toward the regime is. And they don’t need that reinforced."

Meanwhile, ThinkProgress points out that "Peggy Noonan, another conservative columnist and former speechwriter for President Reagan, denounced the right-wing attacks, particularly those from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). 'To insist the American president, in the first days of the rebellion, insert the American government into the drama was shortsighted and mischievous,” she wrote, adding that “the ayatollahs were only too eager to demonize the demonstrators as mindless lackeys of the Great Satan Cowboy Uncle Sam, or whatever they call us this week.'"

It's nice to know that someone on the "R" team is still thinking straight, and not all of them are as recklessly bellicose as McCain ("bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"), Eric Cantor (the bloviating blow-dried blowhard), Charles Krauthammer, and other "foolish" right-wingnuts. I mean, look, I would LOVE to see the demise of Ahmedinejad, Khamenei, the Revolutionary Guards, the Baseej, and all these fanatics. Who wouldn't? But how is U.S. bloviating about it going to help in that regard? Knowing how nationalist the Iranians are, and knowing how sensitive they are to U.S. involvement in their internal affairs, how would increased U.S. rhetoric - let alone action - help matters? Do neoconservatives and right wingers ever think things through, rather than just react emotionally, before they push their utopian fantasies on the world? Apparently not with the Eric Cantors and John McCains and Charles Krauthammers of the world.