We seem to be in a damned if you do and damned if you don’t situation.
If we support the current student rebellion, we in effect, get the guy who might have been responsible for the death of our marines. If we don’t, we get the war-mongering lunatic Ahmadinejad.
Maybe there’s something to Obama’s reticence after all.
I’m sure Ahmadinejad was equally responsible for it.
The vote was actually all about what would be best for Iranians. Mousavi has promised to make changes to the disastrous economy and also to offer a great deal more freedom to women. His wife is very outspoken and apparently is really the one that many of the Iranians were voting for.
One of the reasons their economy is so bad is that Ahmadinejad spends vast amounts of money supporting the “world Islamic revolution,” so if they start actually using their money for Iran and doing something about their 17% unemployment and raging inlation, I think they’ll be much less of a threat anyway.
Of course, Bambi himself is probably a supporter of the “world Islamic revolution,” so it’s no wonder he supports Ahmadinejad.