Obama Needs to Articulate American Ideals

Over at GayPatriot, a comparison is made between Events today in Iran and twenty years ago at Tiananmen Square.

"Perhaps, if they weren’t trying so hard not to be George W. Bush, they might better understand the ideals of our great nation..."

Like many Americans on both sides of the political aisle, I follow the events in Iran sensing we are witnessing something of great historical significance. It reminds me of the fall of 1989 when I would return home from work and flip on CNN (then the only 24-hour cable news network) to learn of the events in eastern and central Europe. That year, the dominoes fell one by one, with freedom triumphing in the nations of the then-Warsaw Pact. But, earlier that year the Chinese Government repressed a similar uprising for freedom in Tiananmen Square. (More...)