Weekly
Standard founder and Iraq War booster Bill Kristol has emerged in
recent days as a self-styled defender of the Iranian people as their
country’s anti-regime protests continue to intensify. But during a
panel discussion on MSNBC Tuesday, National Iranian American Council
president Trita Parsi questioned how much Kristol really cares about
Iranians, given his long record of calling for military actions that
would potentially leave many thousands (or even millions) of them
dead.
Reacting
to Kristol’s call for the U.S. to “respect the Iranian
people’s desire for freedom,” Parsi said: “With all due
respect, Bill, you’ve been arguing to bomb Iran for so long that I
don’t know if you’re really respecting the Iranian people. You’ve
been advocating killing Iranians.”
MSNBC
host Stephanie Ruhle attempted to come to Kristol’s defense,
insisting that he is “not advocating to kill anyone, let’s
make that very clear.”
“No,
on the contrary, there has been all of this argument for taking
military action against Iran instead of actually having the nuclear
deal that has been working,” Parsi responded.
Stephen
Miles, director of Win Without War, argued following the exchange
that Kristol’s history is enough to show that he “is no more
qualified to speak about freedom in Iran than an arsonist is to
promote fire safety.”
Kristol
is just one of a number of American neoconservatives who have jumped
at the opportunity to call for U.S. intervention in Iran in the midst
of growing internal tensions.
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