Posted on 06/18/2009 3:47:44 PM PDT by lewisglad
What's happening on the streets of Tehran is a lesson in what makes history: It isn't guns or secret police, in the end, but the willingness of hundreds of thousands of people to risk their lives to protest injustice. That is what overthrew the shah of Iran in 1979, and it is now shaking the mullahs.
This is politics in the raw -- unarmed people defying soldiers with guns -- and it is the stuff of which revolutions are made. Whether it will succeed in Iran is impossible to predict, but already this movement has put an overconfident regime on the ropes.
The regime must be frightened of the forces it has unleashed. The more it attacks its own people, the more vulnerable it becomes.
If you take a step back, you can see a similar process of ferment across the Muslim world these days. Muslim parties and their allies have suffered election setbacks over the past several years in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco and Pakistan.
The most extreme group of all, al-Qaeda, has alienated former supporters everywhere it has tried to put down roots.
The reasons for these political setbacks vary from place to place. In some countries, Muslim radicals have overreached and created a public backlash; in others, they have been seen as timid and corrupt
The simple fact is that Iran's repressive rulers have overplayed their hand. By manipulating the election results, they have created a popular backlash. Iranians now are voting with their feet, and with their blood. The regime blames Western meddling; they should be so lucky. This is real
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Reported by the MSM as 150 clingers
God bless these people in their quest for freedom. I relish the day when fed-up Americans take to the streets too!
Only when the sword is very short and the pen is very sharp. :-)
They're not - they're the ones out there beating on the people.
“...Imagine the Bonus Army...”
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The 1932 march of the “Bonus Army” was suppressed by U.S. Army troops under the leadership of Douglas MacArthur and George S. Patton.
The government-run media in Iran is now powerless to shape events. The same fate awaits the US government media.
The pen may be mightier than the sword but when the conflict moves to the streets, I’d prefer a rifle
It makes me sick that the POTUS won’t get behind this movement for freedom in Iran. An opportunity like this only comes once in a generation and he won’t even so much as praise them for their courage. 0bama, you are one pathetic, thumb-sucking, bedwetting little turd. Resign now.
As bad as Biden is, I somehow believe, were he the POTUS, he’d at least give them a verbal pat on the back. 0bama is truly and unequivocally hopeless.
Ya know, we need to start the drumbeat amongst ourselves that this Iranian freedom movement is a direct result of President Bush’s efforts in Iraq. He showed them the way, so to speak.
It would drive the Bush-haters completely insane.
In the streets I might prefer a pump shotgun. A rifle is for long range work.
with a rifle I have close or long options. With a shotgun, my range is limited. If I had to choose one, it’s the rifle. Either is better than a pen
Tell me that woman doesn’t have Five O’Clock shadow!
True dat. Was thinking the same exact thing.
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