Every time Obama’s statements get tougher on Iran, I wait for our friends on the left to denounce him for making this about the U.S., for meddling in Iranian affairs, for giving the Iranian government a powerful propaganda tool, for all the parade of horribles we were told would occur if Obama spoke with some moral clarity about this crisis. By their logic, Obama has given the regime just what it wanted (denunciations of its conduct it can use for its purposes) at the very moment it’s cracking down hardest. They should be appalled and dismayed — if, that is, so many of them weren’t committed to praising whatever Obama says and does, ranging from nothing to his increasingly clear statements of the last few days.