Rick Santorum is speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Washington, DC. As part of his speech he attacked President Obama’s policy in the mideast, saying, “we see an Arab Spring that should have been a real Arab Spring starting in 2009 with the protests in Iran.”
For what it’s worth, Iran is a not an Arab country. However, taking the argument on its merits, America’s leverage was far less in Iran than it was in Egypt – to which it’s a major donor – or Libya, where it had authorization from the UN and the Arab League to help operate a military operation.
