this is an adventure

Senor and Whiton: “As for the notion that American silence is unhelpful to reformers, this simply contradicts historical experience. Successful movements to alter authoritarian and totalitarian regimes almost always depend on internal dissent backed by strong international support. Those key factors are often required to get a regime’s enablers to lose confidence and eventually succumb.”

Roger Cohen covers bloodshed, chaos in Iran. In the wake of his Friday declaration, “Khamenei saw the hitherto sacrosanct authority of his office challenged as never before since” 1979. “‘Can’t the United Nations help us?’ one woman asked me. I said I doubted that very much. ‘So,’ she said, ‘we are on our own.’”

Calling Ahmadinejad’s win an “absolute victory,” Khamene’i says the election “was a political earthquake for Iran’s enemies–singling out Great Britain as ‘the most evil of them’–whom he accused of trying to foment unrest in the country.” This is that moment where the world has to stand up for freedom, or thousands will likely die.

One of the rarest commodities in the establishment media is someone who was a vehement critic of George Bush and who now, applying their principles consistently, has become a regular critic of Barack Obama — i.e., someone who criticizes Obama from what is perceived as “the Left” rather than for being a Terrorist-Loving Socialist Muslim. […]