You Try, But You Just Can’t
- Posted by Lord Bitememan on June 20th, 2009 filed in Iran fundamentalist · Mousavi
I try to root for Mousavi and this young, freedom-loving mass of Iranians out there, I really do. Then, Mousavi opens his flap about how he’s ready to be a martyr, and I just can’t bring myself to do it. In all honesty I didn’t really ever think it mattered who won this election, but seeing that this same zeal for martyrdom that is so wrong in so much of the rest of the middle east is indeed a driving force in Mousavi as well, I think we might be better off with the devil we know over the devil we don’t.
William Teach says:
I’m rooting more for the people than for Mousavi. Really, he is not all that different than Ahmadinutjob, particularly on foreign policy. Khatami is the real reformer, at least in terms of Iranian politics.
suek says:
I agree with William Teach…
This is a real “Power to the People” moment - though I agree with you that Mousavi is no bargain. As for the martyr thing - I don’t think he’s looking for martyrdom. I think what he’s saying is that he recognizes the possible inevitable and is willing to risk it. If they don’t have some portion of the military willing to work with them, they’re done before they really start. If they’re done before they start, he will be killed…no doubt. The question is simply how hard of a death will he suffer. In the election, he was challenging Ahmadinejad. Now he’s taking on the mullahs. Very different.
McCain08 says:
None of this would have happened if we had just taken John McCains advice and “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb[ed] Iran.” Maybe it’s not too late?
GlenF says:
Perhaps we could install a strong Shah? I think the Iranians really appreciated the last time we helped them politically.
Lord Bitememan says:
Glen, nobody recommended installing any form of leader. The airstrikes that have been advocated thus far are more a factor of trying to disable Iran’s nascent nuclear capacity.
Jenn says:
I’ll support the Iranians when the get rid of the Mullahs, kick the moral police to the curb, hold a REAL democratic election and let woman be free. I like what i see, I like that they are willing to fight for democracy, but Mousavie is barely a shade better than Minnie Abooboohatedajew.
Stix says:
If Mousavi would have won, or at least if the votes were actually counted, Iran would not be much different that it is today. Maybe a little less zeal fro obtaining Nuclear Weapons,but it will still be a theocracy.
But this is more than a protest against Iamanutjob, it is a protest against the Thugocracy in place now. Rafsinjani (spelling???) is calling for getting rid of the Supreme Leader and the way the country is run now. It is against the leadership itself, and Mousavi is only a small part of it.
Yes, Iran will not be our best buddies, but it will be a much better place than it is now it the Thugocracy is taken down and it will be not as much of a threat to the world
raz0r says:
Mousavi isn’t far different that the mini-madman. And the mullahs have the real authority. But I’ll go on the side of the people and hope they get the revolution (political, cultural, etc.) that they need.
Wasn’t it Turbo Tax Tim who said you shouldn’t let a crisis go to waste?
~ShyAsrai~ says:
looks like the iranian people want to choose their dictator.
for them, it’s at least a start to toward liberty
now look at the latest US election: the exact opposite; a start toward tyranny
a grievous irony, that.