Obama and Iran

Re “Obama’s choice not to choose,” Opinion, June 16

I don’t know what Jonah Goldberg wants President Obama to do to bolster the supporters of Iranian reformist presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. We are more popular in the Middle East than we have been in many years, but more popular doesn’t mean popular.

If Goldberg wants to kill this movement in Iran, then by all means, let’s tell the Iranians what to do. After all, that was the George W. Bush foreign policy (plus some added military force), and how has that been doing?

Mitch Engel

Los Angeles

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To pen an Op-Ed column that questions Obama’s forays into the world of passionate realpolitik versus the Republican pedal-to-the-metal philosophy -- which runs over everything in its way on the road to division and destruction -- emphasizes that Orwellian doublespeak is still the one and only language of the conservative movement (if there is still one).

Marc Rogers

Sherman Oaks

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Obama has evidently learned from George H.W. Bush’s actions in Iraq. Leading revolutionaries to believe the U.S. will assist them in overthrowing a corrupt government, then stepping away from that commitment and effectively consigning them to death, is far worse than approaching such a situation with circumspection.

Mark Steinberg

Los Angeles