When making a revolution, allies matter. So do enemies. If you can’t identify your friends and target your enemies, you’re better advised to do nothing. And that is just what our enemies hope we will do. Washington Post reporter Karl Vick, reporting from Tehran this week, trumpeted that the new U.S. strategy to help pro-democracy groups inside Iran “could backfire,” by tainting activists as American agents. “We are under pressure here both from hard-liners in the judiciary and that stupid George Bush,” he triumphantly quotes an Iranian “human rights activist” as saying. The only problem is, the “human rights activists”...