Democrats and Iran

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Wall Street Journal – REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Kudos to Hillary Clinton — yes, you read that right — for her Senate vote this week urging the U.S. to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. That’s more than can be said for her primary competition of Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson and John Edwards, who assailed her on this score at Wednesday’s Democratic Presidential candidates debate at Dartmouth. The Wall Street Journal

REVIEW & OUTLOOK
September 28, 2007; Page A14

Kudos to Hillary Clinton — yes, you read that right — for her Senate vote this week urging the U.S. to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. That’s more than can be said for her primary competition of Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson and John Edwards, who assailed her on this score at Wednesday’s Democratic Presidential candidates debate at Dartmouth. These are men who seem to fear the Netroots more than the mullahs.

Mrs. Clinton’s vote was on a symbolic amendment offered by Connecticut maverick Joe Lieberman and Republicans Jon Kyl and Norm Coleman. After marshaling the evidence of Iran’s terrorist activities in Iraq, the amendment stated that “it is a critical national interest of the United States to prevent [Iran”> from turning Shi’a militia into a Hezbollah-like force that could serve its interests inside Iraq.” Twenty-one Democrats, including Joe Biden and John Kerry, apparently found this too shocking to support and voted nay, as did Republicans Chuck Hagel and Dick Lugar.

We probably shouldn’t complain when 76 Senators, including a majority of Democrats, show some foreign-policy sense. Still, it’s telling that the Democrats only agreed to the amendment after demanding that its language be edited to remove a statement that “it should be the policy of the United States to stop inside Iraq the violent activities and destabilizing influence” of Iran. Also left on the cutting-room floor, under Democratic duress, was a call “to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq” with respect to Iran and its proxies.

The mullahs are supplying the shaped-explosive charges to Shiite militias that are killing or maiming Americas in Iraq. But these Senators are afraid even to suggest that the U.S. might use some kind of military force to save the lives of American soldiers. And they want to be Commander in Chief?

At Dartmouth, Mrs. Clinton defended her vote by noting that it “gives us the options to be able to impose sanctions on the primary leaders to try to begin to put some teeth into all this talk about dealing with Iran.” That’s right. With Americans having just had a Close Encounter of the Third Kind with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it’s no surprise that her relative hawkishness is only widening her primary lead.

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