US President Barack Obama is taking fire from all sides on his position, or some would say lack of it, on Iran. Some say he hasn't done enough and others say he has done too much: the US is meddling.

Only the most uninformed would argue that has said nothing to support or inspire the Iranian riots. Indeed, Obama has given the Iran rioters his nod of approval by making clear that their "robust" action "inspires" him, if not the world. He clearly supports the Iranian riots with approval. To Obama throwing, bricks, wielding clubs, breaking windows and burning cars and buildings is just an exuberate youth expressing themselves.

Obama calls stoning the police, breaking windows, burning cars and buildings, using clubs and attaching police stations in his words, "peaceful." Yet, this same conduct in WTO protests in Seattle, at the 1968 democratic convention in Chicago, or at Kent State and Jackson where we shots students, or the Watts riots, or L.A. after Rodney King got off in Van Nuys, were intolerable to many and the rule of law..

Well, finally he sees that something isn't quite right. This peaceful expression of democracy is now "outrageous." A reporter asked, "What took you so long?" To realize what? Not that brick throwing, club wielding or burning down Tehran was "Outrageous," but, Obama sees the riots in Iran as "outrageous," because the mullahs want the riots stopped. Because they use threats and force to try to stop the riots they are oppressive. Hum. Over 400 cities were recently burned in Europe. Is that what to mullahs are supposed to allow? Obama apparently thinks so.

If this is the lens through which Obama sees the world, we are in big trouble. He has no sense of reality nor of right or wrong. Sure, the mullahs are an easy target, but, fairness requires you see the whole picture. You can't just see what you want. Pick and choose the parts in order to perpetuate a predetermined course of war with the bad guy.

Look at the whole picture. One sided is one side, no matter what side you are on.

For me it is about the truth, at least as I see it. Democrat or Republican, right or left, don't really matter. Being a liar or one who can't see his hand in front of his face or one who believes that "we" believe he can't see his hand, is what matters.

If the truth isn't good enough, then it is just not good enough. We identify a bad guy and distort everything to prove he is worse than he is. The bad guy becomes the monster threatening the world and a sense of urgency to destroy the monster permeates the West and Isreal.

I am not defending Iran, but, let's get real. What are they supposed to do? Nothing. Just play the fiddle while the country burns.

It may be argued that they have been fairly restrained in view of the size of the rioting crowds and the level of violence they direct at the authorities.

Wouldn't you, as a country, be a little concerned when riots break out so quickly and ferociously just after an election which by many accounts was at worst close. The spark for the fire was the scream: "fixed." No real evidence other than what appears to be fabricated (the letter from the Interior Department), exists or has yet to be produced.

This spontaneous combustion makes no sense. It is just anger directed in any direction it can find vents. The elections, the mullahs, the system, woman's rights, etc. etc. It changes every day. Similar to US excuses for invading Iraq.

Anyway, these riots occur after the US put Iran on the terrorist list, named them as one of the three members of the "axis of evil," has debated for years whether the US or Israel would hit them first and whether nuclear weapons would be used.

Add to that the 1953 overthrow of their democratically elected president and 8 years of US backed war with Saddam and the use of chemical weapons.

And maybe they know our budget contains $750,000,000 for regime change, special ops have gone into Iran, and we back a pro-democracy movement in Iran.

There are two sides to every story. We should be fair and not just swallow the bull.