Juan Cole's blog recently carried an extraordinary carpet-chewing piece by one Mansoor Moaddel, who I presume from his name is a member of the Iranian diaspora:
Iran’s Crisis and the U.S. Option:One wonders just what that ominous phrase "effective support" might mean. Sounds like regime change to me.
Support Mousavi now or fight Ahmadinejad tomorrowThe current civil uprising in Iran reflects not just a protest against a rigged election. Nor is it primarily a symptom of contentions for power or clashes between opposing perspectives on the nature of the Islamic regime. It is, rather, resistance against a political coup, whose engineers plan to impose a Taliban-style Islamic government on Iran....
Ahmadinejad’s deeds are Islamic extremism in action. He has already restricted the freedom of Iranian citizens, expanded men’s authority over women, increased political persecution, undermined the rights of religious and ethnic minorities, and supported terrorism and political adventurism abroad....
At this point, the regime cannot secure its rule without unleashing a reign of terror. And if this coup succeeds, the regime will forge ahead with its expressed plans for nuclear development and support for religious extremism abroad....
The option that is left for the United States is either to effectively support Mousavi’s camp today or risk a military confrontation with Ahmadinejad tomorrow.
Comments (15)
"to make an omelette, you have to soak the streets with ingrate blood for a hundred years"
Posted by hapa | June 30, 2009 1:25 PM
Posted on June 30, 2009 13:25
1976 valedictorian, even.
http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/people/cv/moaddel_mansoor_cv.pdf
Posted by hapa | June 30, 2009 1:36 PM
Posted on June 30, 2009 13:36
Idea: Let's air-drop old Mansoor into Tehran, so he can lead the invasion personally.
Love those ASA "poster presentations" somewhere in Congress. Wonder if Senator Craig ever tapped their foot in that particular washroom...
Posted by Michael Dawson | June 30, 2009 2:43 PM
Posted on June 30, 2009 14:43
I am so tired of these god damn people.
Posted by Michael Hureaux | June 30, 2009 3:13 PM
Posted on June 30, 2009 15:13
"Ahmadinejad and Accumulation" (lenins tomb, June 29) provides a useful antidote to this kind of trash.
Posted by hce | June 30, 2009 3:46 PM
Posted on June 30, 2009 15:46
He's really something. Just a few months ago he was opposed to the "objectively pro-evil" arguments. I took his objections to them seriously enough to defend him. So much for that.
Posted by Al Schumann | June 30, 2009 8:04 PM
Posted on June 30, 2009 20:04
Al, you defended Cole, Moaddel, or lenin? Was it on SMBIVA, or where?
Posted by StO | June 30, 2009 8:39 PM
Posted on June 30, 2009 20:39
"a political coup, whose engineers plan to impose a Taliban-style Islamic government on Iran"
what a way to design a coup
first u gotta
hold power already
then hand pick candidates
and
have an election
and "win" it
but make it "feel" like u stole it
from a hand picked liberalizer
then
beat up a few hundred useful idiots
and as the cherry on top
publically gun down a babe or two
has the smell of a well oiled coup
all over it ...eh ???
Posted by op | June 30, 2009 9:53 PM
Posted on June 30, 2009 21:53
"Ahmadinejad and Accumulation" (lenins tomb, June 29) provides a useful antidote to this kind of trash. "
i read a very lumpy muddle there
and at it's links
seasoned with pink dogma
lenin's tomb ???
too cute for struggle
Posted by op | June 30, 2009 10:30 PM
Posted on June 30, 2009 22:30
"Al, you defended Cole, Moaddel, or lenin?"
as i recall
it was all three ...plus boris badenov
imagine all four of those no goodniks
twirling at once like plates on sticks
got all off
bing bang boom bring
not even perry mason heeeemself
would attempt
such as that
okay ...
so it reality
it was not illya but hees tomb
Al defend
to make foursome
Posted by op | June 30, 2009 11:32 PM
Posted on June 30, 2009 23:32
"Laptop bombardier", haven't heard that term used since the "humanitarian" bombing of Serbia, a few years ago...
Posted by Peter Ward | July 1, 2009 12:39 AM
Posted on July 1, 2009 00:39
StO, I had kind words for Cole, here, a few months ago. after one of the minor league pwog pundits tried to run the objectively pro-evil / "there is no alternative" schtick on him. Owen tried to warn me to save my breath, but I had the bit between my teeth.
I'd not heard of Moaddel before. His jeremiad is a standardized, "if you love liberty, you will kill my former neighbors for me".
Posted by Al Schumann | July 1, 2009 8:11 AM
Posted on July 1, 2009 08:11
I have to second Michael. I am so fucking tired of these Keyboard Kommandos.
Posted by AlanSmithee | July 1, 2009 10:52 AM
Posted on July 1, 2009 10:52
i read a very lumpy muddle there
and at it's links
seasoned with pink dogma
lenin's tomb ???
too cute for struggle
It is much better than your boring muddled articles on this site.
"lumpy muddle" sounds like psychological projection to me.
Posted by jason | July 2, 2009 11:44 AM
Posted on July 2, 2009 11:44
Here's a rule my papie taught me a timelong ago-
THE ONLY WAY TO FIGHT HATE, IS WITH MORE HATE
like 50 to the power of 10 X it self more
and who hates america more than N. koreans oh I don't know just Arabs
Posted by Son of Uncle Sam | July 3, 2009 8:13 AM
Posted on July 3, 2009 08:13