[Timesink]

causing some of the worst violence in the history of the 22-year-old Islamic revolution.

You know, don't revolutions ever END? We don't go around saying we're in the 225th year of the American Revolution.

[Sabertooth]

"You know, don't revolutions ever END? "

Interesting question, actually. Revolutions are often fought and won with a lot of young men. They take power, rise through the ranks... And the Revolution continues.

The Revolution ends when the youngest revolutionary dies of old age.

Remember when the Soviets went through Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, and finally Gorbachev in the space of a few years? The first three were pretty much the last of the Bolshevik Revolutionaries in the Politburo. Once they were gone, the revolution died, and voila! ...Perestroika.

Similar stuff is starting to happen now in China.

Give it another 10 or 20 years, and it'll happen in the American Civil Rights movement, as well.

Jesse and Sharpton are just about the last of the active orifinal arm-linkers.

[Illbay]

Excellent point. The official position of the Communist government of China is that the revolution is ongoing.

[willyone]

Successful revolutions that achieve what they set out to do with the consent and support of the citizens end. Those that just install one tyranny for another never end. Cuba,Mexico,China for example. It appears that Iran and maybe Russia will finally have theirs end. Had Jimmy the idiot Carter not stopped paying the bribe money to the mullahs because it was immoral the Shah never would have fallen. But then again if Iran doe's change it may well be a better country after seeing what a Islamic nightmare is really about.