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"We come here today partly in recognition of the fact that we in the United States and the world community did not do as much as we could have and should have done to try to limit what occurred...All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror." -- Pres. Bill Clinton in his apology to the Rwandan people for his lack of intervention during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

"It is not productive, given the history of US-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling -- the US president, meddling in Iranian elections." -- Pres. Barack Obama commenting on Iran's stolen 2009 election.

Reports coming out of Iran, limited though they are, state that a massacre took place on June 24, 2009, in Tehran's Baharestan Square. Iranian basij, club-wielding militiamen, savagely attacked pro-freedom protesters, throwing some of them off a pedestrian bridge. They attacked them with batons, tear gas, bullets and, in at least one location, axes. What was the catalyst for this slaughter? Their desire for liberty and freedom, rights guaranteed to every human being under Natural Law.

The fact that Iran doesn't have the luxury of electronic voting or optical scanners for reading ballots -- and that ballots are counted by hand in many locations outside of Iran's urban centers -- should have served as quantifying evidence -- proof positive -- that the Iranian mullahs and their Islamist regime staged a coup against the Iranian people, securing the mantle of illegitimacy. In light of this, many, including myself, feel that President Obama should have issued a more declarative statement in the moments immediately following Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declared victory; a statement committing the intent of the United States to stand aligned with the pro-freedom forces inside Iran.

Instead of offering solidarity with those who are literally dying in the streets of Iran in a quest for increased liberty and freedom, Mr. Obama put his own political philosophy (negotiations and diplomacy at all cost to achieve the goal) above the lives of freedom-fighters. It should now be obvious to even the most partisan of political ideologues that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the mullahs and the pro-regime Islamist thugs that constitute the Iranian government -- and who represent the totalitarian oppression of the Persian people of Iran inflicted by the Islamist revolution of 1979 -- have no interest in dialogue, compromise, becoming a part of the world community or human rights. Their sole interests revolve around power, the eradication of Israel and the conquest of the West. For Mr. Obama to believe anything else at this point, given what we know as fact, is pure ideological folly.

But Mr. Obama is not the first liberal Democrat to abandon humanity in the name of international diplomacy and dialogue. Even the most cursory examination of history offers up the inarguable reality of the Left's penchant for cowering in the face of evil and then attempting to rewrite history in an effort to expunge their cowardice.

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