Comments on: The day after

By: Listen up

Listen up — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:16:53 +0000

The events in Iran have moved beyond the election and have now entered a movement for freedom beyond anything that Mousavi was planning. The fuse has been lit. The present government may appear to crush the protests but actually the revolution will go underground and will be far more active and lethal than the Mullahs can cope with. It is the beginning of the end of Mullah rule in Iran. I do not expect it to happen suddenly but it will come within the next three years. The world that Neda saw when she traveled outside Iran is the world the people of Iran want and now they have seen the clear contrast between that world and their own, between their brutal government and the freedom offered in other governments, there will be no stopping them. I do not expect them to embrace America but I do expect them to embrace a new Iran with justice and freedom for their people.

By: Belmont Club » Sea change

Belmont Club » Sea change — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:28:43 +0000

[...] I wrote in the Day After, if Moussavi cannot stay at the head of forces he has tapped, they will find a new leader. On that [...]

By: Typos_R_Us

Typos_R_Us — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:44:37 +0000

RWE, good shot! 10 ring. I hadn’t thought of that, but you are correct. I still don’t think anything will be accomplished beyond the murder of some Iranian style ‘useful fools’ but I have been wrong before.

By: Bad Karma

Bad Karma — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:14:56 +0000

These statements from Mousavi, I find slightly comical. This is the same person who basically stood up Hezbollah, an architect of the MOIS, and ardent supporter of armed aggression against Israel. Change you can believe in? Hardly. The lesser of two evils? Not really.

By: John Samford

John Samford — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:56:37 +0000

You will know it’s over when Ahamadamnutjob comes back from Moscow and steps off the plane to the cheers of millions.
This round was actually smaller then the ‘99 one and not as bloody as the ‘04 one. This made the news only because there was more channels to get info out before he Mad Dog Mullahs got them closed.
That and the MSM needs a news break from the tanking employment numbers. The Usurper ( or st least his minions) has/have been cooking the books on the unemployment numbers. You can only do that for so long before the real numbers pop up. June will be well past 10 and July will be gruesome. Even though those that go from a 40 hour week to a 24 hour week will not be counted as unemployed.

By: oMan

oMan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:47:04 +0000

How do you say “Who is John Galt?” in Farsi? I predict a lot of low-profile re/organization and consolidation, some vicious payback that may not make much news, and a general weakening of the Iranian economy. Granted, that will be hard to measure and attribute to a formal intent and program by the new opposition(s), but as a core psychological/sociological matter, it seems at least plausible. Think about it, people. If you saw crowds of Tea Party people being clubbed by ACORN types while National Guard and local cops stood by, would you be all perky about going to your job and doing an extra-good job, risking capital in your business, to help the “Won” and his team further refine the means of oppression?

Didn’t think so.

By: always right

always right — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:55:36 +0000

44.

None of the current occupants in WH are stupid. What kind of take home message do these people get from this ‘teachable moment’?

I have no confidence that they will draw the correct conclusion.

By: David W. Lincoln

David W. Lincoln — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:31:41 +0000

I am willing to say that given the familiarity of Persia (which was renamed Iran) with chess, we are seeing a change of tactics on behalf of those who the Mullahs were reacting to.

The safer route is economic disruption, brought on by strikes. After all, didn’t the establishment of Solidarity in Poland see national wide strikes in Poland take place before?

So, what we need at this time is a list of which companies based outside of Iran, who are
doing business in Iran. Let them be heavily fined for their part of strengthening the current regime. After all, those who oppress
place less emphasis on the adjective in front of the word, “power”, than we do. So, when they have less money, they have less power to
go after those who communicate, “The Emperor has no clothes”.

By: RWE

RWE — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:25:25 +0000

Always right #43:

Old baseball story: A rookie gets sent out to left field and screws up thoroughly, drops balls, misses easy catches, runs the wrong way.

Two innings later the team sends out a very reliable experienced player to left field instead of the rookie. He does no better.

The experienced player coems in at the end of the inning and says “That rookie got left field so screwed up that no one could straighten it out.”

If Obama’s approach goes down in flames it with be W’s fault for screwing up the ME so badly that even The Prince could not fix it.

If the mullah’s thugocracy in Iran falls and democracy arises, it will be credited to Obama. The fact that even people like Fred Thompson are saying on the radio “Boy , we never saw this coming.” ensures that.

I would like to have called Fred and said “This is like a Republican President being elected in November 1944, getting sworn in in Jan 1945 and saying “Howthell did we end up with all these troops of ours in France, Belgium, Czechlovokia, and Germany? Nobody saw that coming!” And indeed, if you ignore 6 Jun 1944 and subsequent events no one would have “seen it coming.”

By: always right

always right — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:45:54 +0000

23 RWE
This is all going according to plan – George W. Bush’s plan.

Therefore, under no circumstances will Obama be seen as following GWB’s footsteps.