What Should Captain America Do About Iran? Nothing.

Nothing.

John McCain completely disagrees. Here is an example of a politician saying something stupid for the sake of political gain. He should know better. He's certainly in a position to be better informed than that.

Obama's position is right on the money. Stay out of it. Let's not "meddle" in Iranian affairs. His reasoning is absolutely sound. As soon as the US stands up against Ahmadinejad, then he can just turn around and call Mousavi a US puppet, and it's conceivable that some Iranians will believe it, and the movement will fizzle. Perhaps that's overstating things a bit, but we shouldn't miss the point. Let's not give the regime any way to claim that the opposition is the result of foreign powers meddling in Iranian politics. Everyone in Iran is distrustful of foreign influence. They have been for a very long time.

And anyway, just what does McCain think we can acheive by our meddling? Is the collapse of the Iranian government not happening fast enough to satisfy him?

Let's say that it's somehow possible to convince the Iranian government to "play nice" and stop killing protesters. What then? I hate to sound like a cold, bloodthirsty, inhuman monster, but the fact is, the doom of the Iranian state is spelled out in the blood of these protesters, who history will undoubtedly honor as martyrs. This is what happens in revolutions. There's violence; people die. I don't like it anymore than anyone else, but it's a necessary evil.

The fact is, Obama has denounced the violence. Iran is already under a number of sanctions from the UN. What more can be done?

"People are being killed and beaten in the streets of Tehran and all over Iran, and we should stand up for them," he told FOX News. "The way we stood up for the Polish workers in Gdansk, the way we stood up for the people of then Czechoslovakia in the Prague Spring and we have stood up for freedom in every part of the world. We're not doing that."

Precisely how should we stand up for these people, and how will that do them any good? If we take their side, so to speak, that will undermine their legitimacy in Iran. Why is this such a hard concept to understand? Not everyone looks at the US as some kind of world savior. Captain America is just a comic book.

When asked to respond to Obama's argument that perceived U.S. meddling could cast protestors as puppets of the United States, McCain said, "You know, I heard that argument during the Cold War that if we advocated for the oppressed under the then Soviet Union, that would somehow help the oppressors. It doesn't. It doesn't."

What a brilliant and well thought out response! "It doesn't." Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't anyone on the President's staff think of that? The fact is, McCain doesn't HAVE a coherent response to such a well reasoned argument, because he knows he's wrong. He is irresponsibly standing against the President, exploiting the ignorant American public, and all for the sake of political gain. John McCain is no Captain America.