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Pundits, Get Out of Iran's "Green" Zone

Akagi2 Wrote: Jun 25, 2009 7:24 PM

What do you expect? He is blinded by his own biases. I said from the start that it was stupid for the US pick sides in this fight and few in the protesters camp wanted to over throw the Islamic Republic. This is not about freedom but who gets to be in charge. This is like a struggle between Jiang Zemin and Zhao Ziyang. Okay, maybe Zhao was not quite as hardline as Jiang, but Zhao wasn't a Chinese version of Jefferson either.

The US saying we deplore the violence is one thing but to side with one-side which so many "be like Reagan" conservatives want Obama to do is pure stupidity. Mousavi is not Vaclav Havel which Newt seems to compare him too.

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Pundits, Get Out of Iran's "Green" Zone

Aside from a mass deployment of force against unarmed protestors (which, unfortunately, is not unlikely) what is the worst possible outcome in Iran? Answer: That it becomes unavoidably clear the post-election conflict isn't a struggle between tyranny and freedom -- the epic narrative we've been hearing in absolute, non-contestable terms. The worst thing that could happen next, at least for the absolute, non-contestable pundit-ocracy, is that it becomes clear we're looking at an intra-Islamic power struggle that has nothing to do with liberty and justice for anybody.