Obama likes the expression “get right with.” Illegal aliens, he said, should “come out of the shadows and get right with the law.” Iran, he has now said, has “a chance to get right with the world.” He also said that, if Iran got right, “it would be a very successful regional power.”

That’s nice. You know what I think Iran should aspire to? And what I think the president of the United States should say Iran should aspire to? Not being a totalitarian police state. Not torturing and raping innocent girls in Evin Prison. Not stoning girls to death for the “crime” of having been gang-raped. Allowing a little freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press.

That should be the aspiration, “regional powerhood” be damned. Or are human rights too icky in the post-Bush era?

Moreover, Khomeinist Iran doesn’t want to be a regional power. They are already a regional power. They move events in the PA, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere. They want to lead the whole Islamic world and destroy anyone who does not submit to their way of life, starting with the Satans, Great and Little.

Is there no one in the White House or in Valerie Jarrett’s clique who can explain that to our president? It would be a huge service.