Rumor has it that the IRGC will be called into to crush the Iranian protests sooner rather than later.
While many see hope for revolutionary change, I’m skeptical any internal movement will displace the mullahs. It’s easy to forget the Soviet Union fell only because their leadership lacked the will to send in the tanks as they had in the past, possibly due in part to a decade of being harangued as an “evil empire” by Ronald Reagan. The mullahs, by all indications, have no such moral qualms and today’s President seems to think all this is just “robust debate.” The only real hope for the protesters is that the IRGC itself will refuse such orders.
UPDATE: Joe Klein says the Iranian people are brainwashed morons who hate us because they think we gave Iraq WMD and don’t want our support, and if we support the protesters the Iranian government will attack them, which those idiotic Iranian people will cheer. Also, the protesters will fail anyway, and we don’t want to look bad for not supporting them enough like in Hungary 1956 or Iraq 1991. Oh, and those moronic Iranians who have such crazy beliefs are also “well-educated, sophisticated people.”
Unsurprisingly, Sully agrees.
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