Saberi: Hoping For Change?
By Mitch Berg
As I noted earlier, free-lance journalist, former NPR reporter/Miss North Dakota/Fargo North alum Roxana Saberi is being held incommunicado in Iran.
Ed at Hot Air notes:
This puts Barack Obama’s “smart power” foreign policy to the test. If Saberi’s case gets a lot of attention, the State Department will feel the pressure to get her released. This happened a few times during the Bush administration, which succeeded in all but one case to gain the release of arrested Americans.
Of course, Congress is frequently the engine of the “attention” that needs to be paid. What is the position of NoDak’s two Senators, arch-liberal Obama supporters Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan?
There was a time we could have counted on Norm Coleman to be a voice for justice in these cases. God willing, we will again.
Where is Amy Klobuchar, figuratively (and where is Al Franken, literally)? Do either of our Senators/would-be Senators have the falafel to smack down the mullahs?
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:22 am
“Where is Amy Klobuchar, figuratively (and where is Al Franken, literally)? Do either of our Senators/would-be Senators have the falafel to smack down the mullahs?”
No, I don’t think they do. But hear she can be funny.