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Just in case people are reading something nefarious into Sowell's comment about Obama and Sharia law, he wasn't implying that Obama was a secret Muslim or the l
by iconjack 6y ago
Just in case people are reading something nefarious into Sowell's comment about Obama and Sharia law, he wasn't implying that Obama was a secret Muslim or the like, rather he was criticizing Obama's posture toward Iran, which Sowell considered soft and also feckless, in the sense that he believed the policy would lead to Iran joining the nuclear power club.
- Context_free 6y agoIn the 1970s the US was encouraging Iran to become a nuclear power (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Shah_of_Iran_building_two_nuclear_plants.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Shah_of_Iran_... ). The US was also still supporting the mullahs, as it had since the 1950s, against the secular left and anti imperial nationalists like Mossadegh.