Posted on 06/30/2009 7:53:16 AM PDT by Jbny
Fareed Zakaria enters the fray to explain why Irans Velvet Revolution is not about to happen. He makes some good points about why Iran 2009 is not Prague 1989 the regime has money and guns and the religious establishment is not aligned behind the demonstrators. He also makes some less good points that alleged U.S. support for armed groups fighting the regime, or U.S. rhetoric about a possible military strike, or U.S. support for Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war always rallied people around the regime.
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a version of “Radio Free Middle East” would be good,. so folks get their news from other than al Jazeera
But then- not likely to happen under this group of marxists! Our own media is starting to sound just like al Jazeera.
Heaven forbid that 0bomba do anything that impinges on a fraudulent government’s “sovereignty” in the name of the higher calling of Freedom.
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