On The Streets in Iran

While we've been concentrating on our blogs and jobs and meals and children and how to add melodic interest to that chorus, hundreds of thousands of Iranians have been out on the streets protesting how their government stole their last election. Not only were more votes counted for the government candidates than are actually registered to vote, but only opposition candidates approved by the government had been allowed to run in the first place.

So do the people do what we did when Bush stole 2000? No. They take to the streets to demand justice, and quite a few have paid the price.

Forget Ayatollah Khomeini. He's as 1970s as Jimmy Carter. The Iranians are our natural allies in the region, they have the largest and strongest country and they are not Arabs. They fear the Arabs just as we do, and for the same reasons. Think about that before you want to see Obama do or say something to gum up the situation there. Time is on everyone's side here.